Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-03-02]: CERN has failed so far to identify the supersymmetric particles which the current Standard Model "requires". If by the end of 2012 it has yet to detect those particles, that would mean that the science of physics would have to choose another way to solve the problems of "Dark Matter" and of the famous Higgs particle [sources:
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4]. The reality (we think that) is always one, but the theories we use to interpretate it are always changing. If it is eventually proved that the supersymmetric particles "do not exist", what would that mean for the scientists who believed in the existence of something that does not "exist"? And when the "thing" which will replace those particles is also "proved" in turn that it "does not exist" also (which will happen with certainty), what will happen then? As Feyerabend said, if we consider that "the atoms exist", we must also say that the Gods of Olympus also "exist" [
Harmonia Philosophica]. Both of them were valid (at their time) interpretations of the world. Both of them were replaced or will be replaced by new interpretations. To say that one of them "exists" and the other not, is more a categorical mistake than "objectivity"...
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