Jornal de Astrobiologia e Divulgação

Abstrato

Astro physics

Jordanka Semkova

After three years of very successful experimental work at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, theoretical physics is apparently in the greatest crisis1 in its history. The creation of the quality Model of Particles and Fields was a triumph of theoretical physics. The cornerstone of that triumph was experiments, which discovered signatures of “new physics” and directed theoretical thinking in the right direction; theorists of that time were lucky to have experimental guidance in their service. However, after the advent of the Standard Model, from the theoretical point of view, the experiments have become a long series of boring results; a complete confirmation of the Standard Model, without any discrepancy indicating “new physics” beyond the Standard Model. It became clear that the eventual shortcomings of the Standard Model could not be revealed before the construction of the Large Hadron collider (LHC) at CERN. Hence, during the last three decades, theoretical physicists, who were trying to guess physics beyond the Standard Model, were completely deprived of reference points provided by experiment. In spite of it, a huge majority within the theoretical community were thinking that they have discovered new physics, without experiments.