Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity
If the particle just discovered turns out to be just exactly the Higgs boson of the Standard Model, then our chances for discovering that grand symphony will actually have gone down a lot. We may be stuck with our awkward kludge of a system, and never learn anything more than that — unless somebody finds a way to discover it other than by discovering more particles. Maybe some radical new theory that re-imagines a lot of other parts of physics, and happens to revise particle physics as a mere by-product. Otherwise, we'd better hope that the new particle turns out not to work quite as advertised, and instead provides clues to the deeper pattern.
So, we're hoping it's NOT the correct particle, or did I read that wrong?