During the first collisions of the LHC's twin beams of protons, a machine called A Large Ion Collider Experiment, or ALICE, collected the results from a proton-proton smashup.YAY!!!
For the Large Hadron Collider's first result, ALICE found that a proton-proton collision recorded on November 23 created the precise ratio of matter and antimatter particles predicted from theory.
That is all.
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Hooray - In that if they're getting the results predicted by the Standard Model, it means there's no chance of it killing us all.
Boo - In that most physicists these days (according to Michio Kaku) feel the Standard Model is a dead end, and isn't opening up new areas. If the particles had been in a proportion other than what the Standard Model predicted, it'd have been a shot-in-the-arm to spur science onward. The reason Hawking has a bet that the LHC won't find the Higgs Boson is because that would free us from the trap the Standard Model has become. Science has slowed down, according to some of the books I've read recently, because the standard model just keeps getting validated, and there's fewer and fewer new areas to explore.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!," but "That's funny..."
-Isaac Asimov
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