Guest Post: Jacques Distler, Why I Lost $750 On New Physics At The LHC
Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 17:10
in Physics & Chemistry
Jacques Distler is a Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, and a distinguished theorist, as well as a physics blogger. Along with experimentalist Gordon Watts (who covered $250) he took my $1000 bet that the LHC would not discover new physics in its first 10/fb of proton-proton collision data. I discussed my take on the bet in a previous post; here Jacques explains his point of view, why he took the bet, and what he thinks of the present situation with new physics searches at the high-energy frontier. The article below has appeared today at Distler's blog, and I reproduce it here with his permission. read more