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Linked below is an example of very recent experimental evidence that is not consistent with the Standard Model. There is also data that fits the Holographic Principle but not the Standard Model, as I understand it. The Wikipedia page on the holographic principle discusses this. Then again, there is known data that does not fit the holographic principle. So, I would propose, we have not nailed the laws of physics yet?
I pulled the most recent occurrence I could find—of a finding of new data that did not seem fit the standard model, to the tune of 4.2 standard deviations between experiment and theory, and with strong agreement from prior experimental findings—from a physics Journal, so as not to sensationalize it or speculate on it outside of our discussion. It’s from April 2021. It is one of many examples, I believe.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.141801
You can also find it discussed in many places in the popular mainstream press.
I think it’s important to keep in mind that we have only achieved air flight for the last 118 years or so, and it took us about 200,000 years (plus or minus) to get to this point. What I would think of as modern physics only began about 115 years ago, with Einstein, and again, it took homo sapiens sapiens (modern man) 200,000 years to get to that point. If you respect Stephen Hawking’s opinion, there could very plausibly be intelligent life that has a billion year jump on us. This seems to play out in terms of the age of the earth (~4.5 billion years?) and the Universe (~13.8 billion years?) and the evolutionary process on earth (having begun 3 or 4 billion years ago?) having gone through a few false starts due to mass extinction events, it seems to me.
Still, healthy skepticism plays a useful role, IMHO, or we wind up with some rather fanciful or sensationalistic or even conspiratorial ideas. The intellectual tension can be healthy. It’s perhaps reasonable to be very skeptical, IMHO, but perhaps it is not the only reasonable way of looking at this?
I pulled the most recent occurrence I could find—of a finding of new data that did not seem fit the standard model, to the tune of 4.2 standard deviations between experiment and theory, and with strong agreement from prior experimental findings—from a physics Journal, so as not to sensationalize it or speculate on it outside of our discussion. It’s from April 2021. It is one of many examples, I believe.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.141801
You can also find it discussed in many places in the popular mainstream press.
I think it’s important to keep in mind that we have only achieved air flight for the last 118 years or so, and it took us about 200,000 years (plus or minus) to get to this point. What I would think of as modern physics only began about 115 years ago, with Einstein, and again, it took homo sapiens sapiens (modern man) 200,000 years to get to that point. If you respect Stephen Hawking’s opinion, there could very plausibly be intelligent life that has a billion year jump on us. This seems to play out in terms of the age of the earth (~4.5 billion years?) and the Universe (~13.8 billion years?) and the evolutionary process on earth (having begun 3 or 4 billion years ago?) having gone through a few false starts due to mass extinction events, it seems to me.
Still, healthy skepticism plays a useful role, IMHO, or we wind up with some rather fanciful or sensationalistic or even conspiratorial ideas. The intellectual tension can be healthy. It’s perhaps reasonable to be very skeptical, IMHO, but perhaps it is not the only reasonable way of looking at this?
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