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Particle and nuclear

Particle and nuclear

Model independence

(Courtesy: CERN)
17 Sep 2019
Taken from the September 2019 issue of Physics World.

Particle physicists are planning the successor to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider – but how will they deal with the deluge of data from a future machine and the proliferation of theoretical models? Michela Massimi explains why a new scientific methodology called “model independence” could hold the answer

It’s been an exciting few months for particle physicists. In May more than 600 researchers gathere

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Michela Massimi is professor of philosophy of science at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where she is also affiliated with the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics. She is the principal investigator on a European Research Council grant (www.perspectivalrealism.org) that studies scientific methodology in particle physics and cosmology, e-mail michela.massimi@ed.ac.uk, Twitter: @p_realism
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