I, too, got excited about the Standard Model being impugned by the neutrino symmetry breaking result, but it was apparently retracted two weeks later. I never heard about the retraction until reading this article, another new "oh but this time...".

I think I'm close to done with caring, which is a pretty major reversal from my previous stance. Can't think of a way that proving the Standard Model wrong helps address any of the massive problems facing humanity right now. Yes, you have to be pretty brilliant to work on grand unifying theories, but we need as many bright minds as we can get for other more immediate efforts: Solar cell, quantum computing/cryptography, fusion, even climate change mitigation technologies that I'm super wary of. Devac, please tell me why I'm wrong :).

edit: Private sector-side braintrust is fine and necessary, btw, but the entire culture of what we all aim to do with our labor needs to rapidly shift towards better addressing climate change, which might involve incentivizing (for example) grand unifying theory transplants towards climate response team scientist positions, or whatever they'll be called. Maybe we can reduce geoengineering plans down to differential equations and coded language so everyone can feel like they're working in finance ("cooling" = "profit", "albedo" = "libido", "heat flux" = "market direction", "solar input" = "bullishness", etc.), but paid wayyyyy less. (y'know, I'm an ideas guy)