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Devac  ·  717 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Did the W-boson just "break the standard model"?

Today? God, I wish she'd finally stop abusing her ever-growing hate-boner for particle physics, take a swig of her own medicine, and do something else for a while.

Turning public attention towards science is what scientists have to do, regardless of their feelings on the topic. We're too far beyond the point where all you needed to explain breakthroughs in general relativity was a sheet of paper, and particle physics is GRĀ² if you account for how broad in scope is that field. Communication and making buzz are perhaps more important than ever. If it's what the money should be spent on, that's a different discussion.

More to come. Maybe.

    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

Man, that's like making ophthalmology scribes design a new library because they're literate people who talk the least.