New Scientist - Bigger than the Higgs, bigger even than gravitational waves

http://resonaances.blogspot.co…new-boson-at-750-gev.html

What could it be...

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The big picture. Here sky is the limit. The situation is completely different than 3 years ago, where there was one strongly preferred (and ultimately true) interpretation of the 125 GeV diphoton and 4-lepton signals as the Higgs boson of the Standard Model. On the other hand, scalars coupled to new quarks appear in countless model of new physics. We may be seeing the radial Higgs partner predicted by little Higgs or twin Higgs models, or the dilaton arising due to spontaneous conformal symmetry breaking, or a composite state bound by new strong interactions. It could be a part of the extended Higgs sector in many different context, e.g. the heavy scalar or pseudo-scalar in the two Higgs doublet models. For more spaced out possibilities, it could be the KK graviton of the Randall-Sundrum model, or it could fit some popular supersymmetric models such as the NMSSM. All these scenarios face some challenges. One is to explain why the branching ratio into two photons is large enough to be observed, and why the 750 GeV scalar is not seen in other decays channels, e.g. in decay to W boson pairs which should be the dominant mode for a Higgs-like scalar. However, these challenges are nothing that an average theorist could not resolve by tomorrow morning. Most likely, this particle would just be a small part of the larger structure, possibly having something to do with electroweak symmetry breaking and the hierarchy problem of the Standard Model. If the signal is a real thing, then it may be the beginning of a new golden era in particle physics....

The latest theory as follows:

http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2016/07/after-hangover.html

It was fun while it lasted...

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The loss of the 750 GeV diphoton resonance is a big blow to the particle physics community. We are currently going through the 5 stages of grief, everyone at their own pace.

IMO the effect observed was real and its an example of backward causation of supersymmetric unparticle fields. They're behaving like the windowing artifacts during Fourier transform: the more narrow window we use, the more complex curve we get and the effects disappears in wider statistics.

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IMO the effect observed was real and its an example of backward causation of supersymmetric unparticle fields. They're behaving like the windowing artifacts during Fourier transform: the more narrow window we use, the more complex curve we get and the effects disappears in wider statistics.

Write that opinion in a paper and file it where the other 500 papers are going.

Rather not, you would cite it and promote is as a new cold fusion mechanism...

It is a great shame this possible resonance turns out to be a statistical blip, as was always most likely. Not surprising the physicists are heart-broken.

This rather puts paid to the idea that the physics establishment is hidebound and unable to process experimental data that breaks existing theory. Here was data that broke existing theory and they absolutely loved it - and ran for miles with speculation in advance of the data being confirmed. It is a real pity that it was not. Still, it is good to see that whatever theoretical speculation there is, in the end it gets rooted in secure experimental foundations!

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It is a great shame this possible resonance turns out to be a statistical blip, as was always most likely. Not surprising the physicists are heart-broken.

This rather puts paid to the idea that the physics establishment is hidebound and unable to process experimental data that breaks existing theory. Here was data that broke existing theory and they absolutely loved it - and ran for miles with speculation in advance of the data being confirmed. It is a real pity that it was not. Still, it is good to see that whatever theoretical speculation there is, in the end it gets rooted in secure experimental foundations!

Excess heat is just a very small part of LENR. In LENR, the production of strange matter should keep the people at CERN occupied for awhile. Then there is the magnetic confinement of hole superconductors to figure out. Appling superconductor theory to black hole dualism will take some time. Understanding multiparticle entanglement through wormhole connectivity will hold the interest of science for sometime more time. There is much more in LENR that can extend the interest of science for another century, only if science would only look at what they now think is impossible. Oh, let us not forget to add the completion of the Grand Unification Theory, that will be the big enchilada. Einstein will then rest easy in his grave.

Now that the diphoton bump is gone, we’ve entered what has become known as the “nightmare scenario” for the LHC: The Higgs and nothing else. Many particle physicists thought of this as the worst possible outcome. It has left them without guidance, lost in a thicket of rapidly multiplying models. Without some new physics, they have nothing to work with that they haven’t already had for 50 years, no new input that can tell them in which direction to look for the ultimate goal of unification and/or quantum gravity.

That the LHC hasn’t seen evidence for new physics is to me a clear signal that we’ve been doing something wrong, that our experience from constructing the standard model is no longer a promising direction to continue. We’ve maneuvered ourselves into a dead end by relying on aesthetic guidance to decide which experiments are the most promising. I hope that this latest null result will send a clear message that you can’t trust the judgement of scientists whose future funding depends on their continued optimism.

Let's look to cold fusion for the future of science and grand unification.

Ofcourse, they didn't vind dark matter! There is a theoretical problem about the relation between spacetime and the structure of quantumfields. Therefore they interpret dark matter as particles with mass. That is wrong. So you can't detect dark matter with the help of particle accelerators.

That’s no problem as long as you wash your hands carefully. Just like your mum and dad have told you.

Wow.. it's an unexpected thing for me. But i think washing hands more often will help