Matt Strassler

"... theres an argument that the Standard Model plus gravity is all there is, and the has nothing to do with nature. And that argument is that the properties of the world, the properties of particle physics in particular, are determined partly ... largely? ... by a ."

"... a very special type of falsehood common in explanations of physics for nonexperts ... a physics fib or, more simply, a phib. Phibs are often found in articles and books about the universe. They arise when well-intentioned physicists, faced with a nonexperts question, are trying to concoct a short, memorable tale to serve as a compromise between giving no answer at all and giving a correct but incomprehensible one."

"... Are we thinking about the wrong? Are we thinking about quantum field theory wrong? Are there particles at the Large Hadron Collider that are hiding from us? ... Its true that the Large Hadron Collider has vast data sets. And when you have a gigantic amount of data, if you dont ask exactly the right question, you might not see whats actually in there. So, we have to be very thoughtful about all the different questions that we should ask of this data."

"What physics explains the enormous disparity between the gravitational scale and the typical mass scale of the elementary particles?"