2020/01/29 by Goran Senjanović, Goran Senjanovic · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #Galileo (satellite navigation) #Hierarchy #Natural (archaeology) #Natural philosophy #Natural science #Naturalness #Philosophy of physics #Philosophy of science #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #hep-ex #hep-ph #hep-th #physics.hist-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217732320300062
Loosely based on the closing talk of the International conference 'LHC Days in Split 2018', September 2018, Split, Croatia
arxiv created 2020/01/29 · openalex publication_date 2020/03/23 · openalex created_date 2020/04/03 · arxiv updated 2020/07/15 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
I reflect on some of the basic aspects of present day Beyond the Standard Model particle physics, focusing mostly on the issues of naturalness, in particular on the so-called hierarchy problem. To all of us, physics as natural science emerged with Galileo and Newton, and led to centuries of unparalleled success in explaining and often predicting new phenomena of nature. I argue here that the long-standing obsession with the hierarchy problem as a guiding principle for the future of our field has had the tragic consequence of deviating high energy physics from its origins as natural philosophy, and turning it into a philosophy of naturalness.