The problem is given the standard model you still would not see anything different most likely .. Jester did a great article

http://resonaances.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/a-kingdom-for-scale.html

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There's actually one important practical consequence. Regardless how high energy collider we build next: 30 TeV, 100 TeV, or 1000 TeV, we cannot be sure it will discover any new phenomena rather than just confirm the old theory in the new energy range.


That is why Ethan's idea is doomed before it even starts ... no one is going to spend that sort of money to simply confirm what they already know. You would have to have a good suspicion and evidence that you may find something new.

The success of the standard model is strangely actually going to inevitably lead to less testing and less experiments which is sort of what happens in science as we solidify things.

A lot of emphasis will inevitably swing onto dark matter now because that is the next big white elephant in the room and there are hints of how to test for it.

Last edited by Orac; 08/15/13 02:31 AM.
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