New Knowledge Does Not Usually Fall into Our Lap
<p>During his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUQzeUaGxBI" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">SpaceX Starship Update for 2024</a>, Elon Musk argued that we might be alone in the universe because he had not yet noticed signs of aliens. This immediately raised a question from the history of physics:</p>
<p><em>In 2010, would Elon be justified in arguing that he did not notice signs of the Higgs boson and hence this theorized particle might not exist?</em></p>
<p>The actual discovery of the Higgs in 2012 required CERN’s <a href="https://home.web.cern.ch/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Large Hadron Collider</a> to smash ions at unprecedented energies at a cost of ten billion dollars.</p>
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