[lbo-talk] Darwinian evolution only part of story?

[Les Schaffer]

On 1/28/2010 3:26 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
>
> CERN is spending multiple billions of real money (euros) looking for 
> the Higgs boojum--er, boson.

i shouldn't egg Shane on, but i can't help it:  i heard through the 
grapevine that one of the Nobel laureates fears that LHC will ONLY find 
the Higgs and nothing else, and he conjectures this will put physicists 
in a very awkward position.

ahhh, he did go public:

    "Many of us are terrified that the LHC will discover a Higgs

    particle and nothing more," Weinberg said. That would just confirm

    the standard model, which everybody believes already. It would not

    point the way to further progress in solving a deeper problem that

    physics faces---how to add gravity to the unified theory of the

    other forces.

    http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2009/10/higgs-discovery-likely-at-lhc.html

Les