Annals of hype: Did this discovery in 2012 mark “the discovery of the final laws of nature . . . a d

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Annals of hype: Did this discovery in 2012 mark “the discovery of the final laws of nature . . . a discontinuity in human intellectual history, the sharpest that has occurred since the beginning of modern science in the 17th century?”

Here’s Ed Regis in 1993, reviewing a book from that year by physicist Steven Weinberg: Currently, the most favoured explanation for the electroweak asymmetry involves the postulation of a new elementary particle, the so-called Higgs boson . . . One …

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RSS Hunter • Sep 12