In other words, its power to explain is seen as an indicator of its truth.
Physics
There may be some evidence for the Higgs boson after all
Glad they’re being suitably cautious; we’ll keep watching.
No Higgs boson? Well, what about Higgsinos or techniquarks …
Nature knows the answer at the moment, and we’re trying to find out at last what it is.
Neutrinos may be faster than light, but published papers on them are not
“In some cases it takes months, sometimes up to a year, to verify that everyone in the collaboration is happy.”
Einstein’s time vs.quantum time
“This effect has been precisely verified in classical experiments, but not in conjunction with quantum effects, which is the aim of the newly proposed experiment. “
Faster-than-light neutrinos: Hey, not so fast
“If the Cohen–Glashow effect is a valid prediction, “neutrinos are not superluminal”
After big faster-than-light neutrino meet: “For the moment, there is no explanation that works”
Even a meeting of elite minds at Europe’s top particle physics lab couldn’t do it.
Higgs boson: Find it in one year or bust, top physicists say
So it will be really interesting to see is whether, in a year or so, some sources are rewriting history to show that they never really thought there was a Higgs boson.
Some proposed new answers for those faster-than-light neutrinos
It hasn’t been a more fun time to be a theoretical physicist in a century, we’re betting.
Applying quantum thinking to biology
Quantum mechanics may explain some hard-to-explain facts about life.
Skeptical mathematician Peter Woit on the faster-than-light neutrinos …
Whatever would we do without real skeptics (who generally don’t set much store by belonging to “Skeptical Societies”)
A series of vintage interviews with famous, semi-famous or interesting physicists past and present.
from the Niels Bohr Library & Archives
Thinking up ways to test that quantum cat
Ball hopes Darwin will solve the problem.
Imagine a universe where Einstein could be wrong, …
Here, we still hold out hope that the faster-than-light neutrinos are an honest mistake. But the glory of real science is precisely that Einstein could be wrong.
Those faster-than-light neutrinos: When results don’t match theory, the equipment is bust, or the staff are incompetent, or …
“The scrutiny of the apparatus only occurred with divergent results, never with consistent results.”