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The hero is the president of the Astrophysics Society, the only person ever to win three Nobel prizes. He stands at night on the beach, legs planted wide, shaking his fist at the jeweled blackness of the sky. Anointed by his humanity, aware of mankinds most powerful achievements, he shouts at the Universe above the grounds of crashing waves I have created you. You are the product of my mind my vision and my invention. It is I who provide you with reason, with purpose, with beauty. A fuzzy swirling light appears in the sky, and a beam of radiance illuminates our man-on-the-beach. To the solemn climactic chords of Bach B Minor Mass, or perhaps the piccolo solo of Stravinskys Rites, the light in the sky slowly configures itself into Her face, smiling, but with an expression of infinite sweet sadness. - The God Particle
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Conceptually there are problems foreseen. BUT, this is Very different situation from turn of last century, when experiments were seeing anomalies that needed explanation. When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned to one deep thought: beauty he said, is unity in variety. Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in wild variety of nature, of more exactly, in the variety of our own experience. - The God Particle
GUT unify Strong and Electroweak forces at 1016 GeV. (GUT Scale) Predicts Proton Should decay with a lifetime of 1031 years or more. (Lifetime of Universe 1011 years) Observe 10 ton of water (1033 protons) No evidence of proton decay ( lifetime > 1033 years)
Planck Scale
At the length at which classical ideas of gravity cease to work
Planck length lP = f(h,GN,c) = 10-35m; Planck Mass MP = 1019 GeV (10-5 gm!)
Hierarchy Problem
If these scale (GUT and Planck) - The Higgs will become massive with higher energies as it couples to more particles in vacuum. Possible, but fine tuning of Standard Model Parameters Hierarchy Problem: Why these very different scales?
SuperSymmetry
Unifies matter particles (lepton & quarks) with force carriers (photon, gluon,W/Z) SUSY solves hierarchy problem e.g., W makes Higgs mass grow while its superpartner makes it less cancellation!
A typical event.
One track reconstruted in Muon chambers Two tracks reconstructed in Inner Detector
Tevatron reach
ATLFAST
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Extra Dimensions
What if Planck scale was much lower than 1019 GeV i.e., Gravity became Strong at lower energies?