Original scientific paper
A New Physics at the LHC and New Philosophical Inquiring
Tomislav Petković
orcid.org/0000-0001-6596-8950
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Applied Physics, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
A paper is aiming towards a new physics paradigm to be brought by the LHC with a critical assessing on that development by the Kuhnian theses and epistemology related to modern physics. Thinking and critical assessments on the new philosophy arise up from the LHC physics, which is interpreted as the ‘science universelle’ (physics, technology, and philosophy, all together). The LHC as the world’s largest particle collider as ever been was not motivated neither to destroy God (Deus sive Natura) nor any religion in the World, but to investigate new particles with their interactions and cosmology of the Nature inasmuch as it has proposed by the LHC scenarios on the Tera-electron-Volt (TeV) scale. Starting from the rediscovery of the Standard Model and discovery of the Higgs bosons, the new physics at the LHC goes by the possible roads according to the Hierarchy Problem in contemporary physics. However, the SM is not a final theory by inquiring a Non-Standard physics, such as Supersymmetry (SUSY), Extra Dimensions on the TeV scale with cosmological implications, and other scenarios. A Non-Standard physics, both theory and experiment, is foreseen to be open and a novel view of agnostic experimentalism (AE principle) was formulated to be the best philosophical principle, since we can’t know/predict everything to be observed in the LHC. Even if experimental programme of the LHC wouldn’t go in the right way, then many possibilities may emerge from the Pandora’s Box of physics. Then, philosophical considerations would become very important, particularly Kuhn’s views on it including our AE principle and new Mediterranean development of philosophy, respectively. After all, either standard paradigm or the new physics of the LHC doesn’t describe the world in which we live.
Keywords
LHC physics; Standard model; new physics paradigm; Kuhn’s paradigm; Non-Standard physics; Copernican revolution; Popper’s evolutionary model; Hierarchy Problem; LHC scenarios; AE principle; new philosophy
Hrčak ID:
62960
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Publication date:
21.7.2010.
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