the “new physics” being discovered at Cern.

Question

https://theconversation.com/evidence-of-brand-new-physics-at-cern-why-were-cautiously-optimistic-about-our-new-findings-157464

In: Physics

Answer 1

A lot of science isn’t “eureka!” but… is more “hmm… that’s odd”. Spotting the weirdness vs what’s already known produces theories… some of those produce new science.

In this case the CERN data seems to be pointing at weirdness in what we know of how the “Standard Model” works. This is likely to eventually produce new understandings as the weirdness is worked out, test and better understandings of it affect our existing knowledge.