The Multiworse Is Coming
&gt; To justify substantial investments, I am told, an experiment needs a clear goal and at least a promise of breakthrough discoveries.<p>This is antithetical to science. If you&#x27;re promising a breakthrough discovery, you&#x27;re approaching the experiment with bias.<p>The fact that more new particles have not emerged at energy levels the LHC can produce <i>is</i> a discovery--if I&#x27;m understanding the blog post correctly[1], it&#x27;s the beginnings of a disproof of naturalness in supersymmmetry. It&#x27;s not as exciting as if they had discovered hundreds of new things to study, but it&#x27;s equally important.<p>And that&#x27;s exactly why I agree with the author: science is about finding what&#x27;s <i>true</i> not about finding what&#x27;s <i>exciting</i>. As a taxpayer, I think one of the most valuable things particle physics could do here is to educate people on that bias and lead by example. I get that they fear losing their funding to do science, but if you let that fear push you into pursuing exciting results over the truth, then you&#x27;re not doing science anyway.<p>[1] I&#x27;m not a particle physicist--my post is about the social problem that physicists are facing, not about the physics.