At A Quantum Diaries Survivor,
Tommaso Dorigo estimates that since the LHC collaborations announced that they
had found a small bump in their data at 750 GeV, more than 200 papers
attempting to explain it have appeared. He maintains a healthy skepticism about
the significance of the bump and opines that most of the papers probably don’t
have the answer. nor do I. He singles out one paper that he thinks is worth
reading, but unfortunately, it depends on supersymmetry, which doesn’t exist.
This
sudden deluge of papers triggered by an unverified bump shows how desperate the
theorists are to find something new to theorize about. They’ve had essentially
nothing for thirty years, and they’re starving. It’s frustrating to watch them
stumbling around in the dark when so many of the answers they’re seeking are
right here.
