Fermilab particle physicist on the continuing search for the Higgs boson:

Imagine that the Earth was completely shrouded in clouds from the time of its creation. Imagine that Humans had evolved for millions of years under these clouds, knowing nothing about the sun, the moon, or the stars except for every 24 hours it gets light, and it gets dark. Now imagine that we send up a probe one mile, but it can't see anything because it's still surrounded by clouds. We send up a probe ten miles, and the same thing. 100 miles, and the same thing. We could use all the latest technology to send up a probe 1,000 miles, and it could still be surrounded by the clouds. But for all we know, the latest probe could have stopped just 10 feet from the edge of the cloud layer. How can you stop sending up probes when you could be that close to seeing the sun and the moon and the entire rest of the universe for the first time in the history of humankind?

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