Vladimir_Nesov comments on Open Thread: November 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 November 2009 03:17:36AM 5 points [-]

I'll go ahead and predict here that the Higgs boson will not be showing up. As best I can put the reason into words: I don't think the modern field of physics has its act sufficiently together to predict that a hitherto undetected quantum field is responsible for mass. They are welcome to prove me wrong.

(I'll also predict that the LHC will never actually run, but that prediction is (almost entirely) a joke, whereas the first prediction is not.)

Anyone challenging me to bet on the above is welcome to offer odds.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 02 November 2009 12:16:56PM *  2 points [-]

I guess hardly anybody here knows even what the question means, exactly, so all a bead jar guess.