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Thursday, February 7, 2019

Test for Dark Matter

The uncertain future of particle physics Ten years in, Large Hadron Collider has failed to deliver exciting discoveries promised. Published:  February 06, 2019 16:52 By Sabine Hossenfelder, NYT

https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/the-uncertain-future-of-particle-physics-1.61682968

"Test for dark matter
I recently came across a promotional video for the Future Circular Collider that physicists have proposed to build at CERN. This video, which is hosted on the CERN website, advertises the planned machine as a test for dark matter and as a probe for the origin of the universe. It is extremely misleading: Yes, it is possible that a new collider finds a particle that makes up dark matter, but there is no particular reason to think it will. And such a machine will not tell us anything about the origin of the universe. Paola Catapano, head of audiovisual productions at CERN, informed me that this video “is obviously addressed to politicians and not fellow physicists and uses the same arguments as those used to promote the LHC in the ’90s.”