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Lots of physicists have their pet theories about "new physics beyond the standard model". Depending on who you ask, they'll tell you a completely different fairy tal about what the LHC will find. The truth is that they have no idea.

Micro black holes is one of the possible "exotic new physics". Other people say that supersymmetric particles will be found. Everyone expects the Higgs boson to be found, but even in that case they don't know what variety of Higgs boson (of the many that are possible in theory) will be found.

Theory has been "ahead of experiment" for over 30 years now, which is a kind way of saying there has been no substantial experimental input, and nothing incompatible with the standard model (including neutrino oscillations). It's a pitiful state for a scientific field. If the LHC does not find some "exotic" physics, theoretical high energy physics will die of success.

The most enticing evidence of "new physics" is coming from relativistic astrophysics and cosmology.

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 06:11:26 PM EST
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