Throwback Thursday: Have we found our last fundamental particle? (Synopsis) [Starts With A Bang]

(Before It's News)

“The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.” -James Smithson

Now that the Higgs has been discovered, the Standard Model is complete. But are there any other new particles?

Image retrieved from Fermilab, modified by me.

If asymptotic safety is right — and it’s looking like the Standard Model might be stable up to energies far beyond the reach of accelerators the size of the entire Earth — there might not be anything at all accessible to humanity as far as experimental particle physics is concerned. And a Higgs mass of 126 GeV might be just the thing to seal that deal.

Image credit: Mikhail Shaposhnikov & Christof Wetterich.

Go read the whole thing here.

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