<br>The NY Times is picking up on the problems with physics today [1].<br><br>It points out how supersymmetry isn't exactly knocking down the doors and the only "new" thing appears to be "inflation" (the acceleration of the expansion of the universe) which doesn't fit into the "standard" model [2]. Also how disappointed everyone will be if only the Higgs boson pops out of the work at the spiffy new collider in CERN in the next couple of years.
<br><br>Robert<br><br>1. "Physics Awaits New Options as Standard Model Idles"<br>Dennis Overbye (4 Jul 2006)<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/science/04phys.html?pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/science/04phys.html?pagewanted=print
</a><br>2. Of course if the universe is filled with ATC then all theories derived from assumptions that the universe is dead are on the table for discussion. [But since we have already been there recently lets not go there again...]
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