alt Hacker NewsThe Standard Model died for me when the Higgs failed to live up to the hype.
I’ve long thought of CERN to be a scam of sorts - such physicists made great television in the 90s/00s but that’s all it ever was.
Turns out nobody really knows, and the concept of reducing reality to a dozen or so balls is nothing short of a joke to anyone who knows how to think properly.
Not only does coming up with this billiard ball theory fall WAY short of explaining the universe, it falls short of even being possible to explain it.
For example you can’t get the answer to a real mystery like the energy preceding the Big Bang or what consciousness is from these balls.
It’s a stupid idea.
You really don't seem to understand what a model is. A model is essentially an approximation of reality capable of making predictions. If those predictions get confirmed, the model will be accepted.
Barely anybody with reasonable education in physics would confuse a model built for humans to understand reality with actual reality. Models are not reality, they are a tool used to describe it, nothing more and nothing less.
Let's take Newton's laws as an example. Obviously, there is not a literal force vector manifesting and pushing objects. But it's a good predictor of behavior and allows building of understanding.
The Higgs Particle did exactly what it was expected to do and works just like Higgs predicted. If you look at click-focused press and think their bad explanations properly describe the state of physics, you're simply mistaken.
However, to understand that, you have to actually learn. And, if you intend to revolutionize physics, you also need to be able to make better predictions. Which is ... unlikely, to say the least.
Again: Models in physics approximate reality. They do not actually exactly describe fundamental reality, only how it works within the limits of the model.