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u/ZephirAWT · 1 pointr/ScienceUncensored

Unzicker and Gross have a nice discussion David Gross is proponent of Standard Model here. Whereas Alexander Unzicker is German physicist researching "Einstein's" concept of variable speed of light
In his book, “The Higgs Fake“ he states:
It (the book) is written for the young scholar who wants to dig into the big questions of physics, rather than dealing with a blend of mythology and technology

Why we measure two different values for the radius of protons? Two Higgs masses? Two values of Hubble constant? Two lifetimes of neutron? How Standard model actually "calculates" things illustrates the recent discussion about proton radius discrepancy. The radius of proton is determined with dozens of QED corrections, many of them were chosen arbitrarily and their experimental errors are still quite large. This is epicycle approach on steroids - but it's tolerated or even promoted, because just this approach promises as many jobs for its proponents, as possible.

Of course, more intelligent and way less grants/job demanding/promising approach is also possible. We don't need Standard model parasites for anything useful:

u/optiongeek · 1 pointr/Economics

Fair enough. But I think I can confidently say that employing 10's of thousands of physics to "discover" the Higgs boson is unlikely to result in a payoff. Ever. According to some, the whole thing was a boondoggle from the start - an exercise designed to separate foolish governments from some of their extra cash they had that was simply lying around. They've played that trick once. What are they going to try the next time?

u/ryios · 1 pointr/dataisbeautiful

Maybe, there's a possibility the Higgs Boson that was found was a mistake and not a Higgs Boson, if so would mean the Higgs Boson wasn't found and as such hasn't been confirmed.

There's even a book on the idea: https://www.amazon.com/Higgs-Fake-Particle-Physicists-Committee/dp/1492176249

Just google "Higgs Boson imposter".