00:00 — Introduction
01:11 — Physicists Call This the Nightmare Scenario
02:17 — Ten Billion Dollars to Prove We Were Already Right
03:11 — The Value of a Negative Result
04:19 — Wrap Up
Sources:
- Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else: https://www.science.org/content/article/ten-years-after-higgs-physicists-face-nightmare-finding-nothing-else
- Facts and figures about the LHC: https://home.cern/resources/faqs/facts-and-figures-about-lhc
- LHC lawsuit case dismissed by US court: https://phys.org/news/2010-09-lhc-lawsuit-case-dismissed-court.html
- Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/science/29collider.html
- The end of the world as we know it?: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/jun/30/cern.particlephysics1
- Particle physics isn't going to die — even if the LHC finds no new particles: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01819-4
- What No New Particles Means for Physics: https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-no-new-particles-means-for-physics-20160809
- First drunk driving arrest: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-10/first-drunk-driving-arrest
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