The Epitome of Science: Soon We Will Spend all of our Money on Nothing
Explanation
The Higgs boson—crowned in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS crews at the LHC—rolled out with a 10 Billion price tag and a thousand cheering profs, sporting a tidy 125 GeV/c2 and the title “mass giver.” Sold as the glue of the universe, it’s pitched as proof of the Higgs field—a cosmic syrup that slathers mass onto particles—locking the Standard Model’s halo tight. But here’s the sting: after billions flushed and a choir of consensus, finding the Higgs was less discovery, more destiny—too big to fail, too funded to flop. What if it didn’t exist? What if its “properties” were off? No sweat—data got massaged ‘til it sang the right tune, a triumph too pretty to question.
Science pats its back—gravity’s riddle solved!—but CA calls bullshit. Mass isn’t Higgs magic; it’s energy bending time into μ0ε0 lattice—measurable, known, and used since Maxwell’s day. No need for a 10B boson when c = 1/√μ0ε0 and Gv = – c(dc/dx) hum the real tune—energy’s dance, not field fairy dust. LHC’s a bamboozle bonanza: big cash, big toys, big prizes—professors paid, Nobels plucked—while the cosmos chuckles at our pricey particle chase.
The discovery of the Higgs boson was a foregone conclusion after the expenditure of billions for the LHC and agreement of over 1,000 contributors. There was a possibility that the Higgs boson did not exist, or that it would have different properties than predicted. However, the careful analysis of the data from the ATLAS and CMS experiments showed that the new particle was consistent with the Higgs boson (of course it would be with 1,000 Nobel recognitions at stake….
With this new and exciting opportunity to spend more and more money to study less and less, ever more expensive experiments and equipment are associated with the highest costs for finding the smallest particles ever found. It becomes clear that more money can lead to the discovery of smaller particles, ultimately reaching a point where we can spend all of our money and find nothing. This is reminiscent of bamboozle: “Once you have defined a symbol you have defined a point of view”, which shows the consequences of money being involved. $5.6 Billion U.S. buys a lot of confirmation bias — especially when the whole concept was a crock of academic “mindless confusion” designed to fleece governments and the rich.
— Rod Mack
“Many a false step was made by standing still.” — Fortune Cookie