Sabine Hossenfelder on the search for new particles

In summary: Many particle physicists do not believe that the particles they are paid to search for exist - they do it because their colleagues are doing it. However, this is not because they have any evidence that these particles actually exist, but because they do not want to be the person who declares that a field they have invested so much time and energy in is false.
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PAllen said:
Further, observed baryon asymmetry make one wonder why this is so.
For what it's worth (coming from a non-physicist like me) I personally think that (1) the baryon asymmetry and (2) the cosmological constant problem are two of the most exciting questions in physics (both of which Hossenfelder considered "illdefined/bad" problems if I understood her correctly).
 
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