Letting Machines Decide What Matters
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In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will have smashed billions of particles together. In all likelihood, it will have found exactly what it found yesterday: evidence to the Standard Model of particle physics. For the engineers who built this 27-kilometer-long ring, this consistency is a triumph. But for theoretical physicists, it has been rather frustrating. As Matthew Hutson reports in “ AI Hunts for the Next Big Thing in Physics,” the field is currently gripped by a quiet crisis.