# Will the Microcosm ever be beautiful? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-microcosm-ever-be-beautiful/457264 "2008-07-21T16:17:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-microcosm-ever-be-beautiful/457264/1 "2008-07-21T16:17:05Z")
Quantum Mechanics, the theoretical Higgs Field, Super String Theory and its 10 or 11 dimensions, all the damn math, all the unexpected particles and wave functions and non-zero vacuums, etc. Sure, experimental evidence has brought all this stuff to our awareness, but doesn’t it feel like we’re missing something? Something big. Something that’s going to tie it all together and make it simple and beautiful. I’m just a fan of physics, I don’t understand anything more than the layman interpretations of it all. But it seems like there’s something grand out there that we can’t see yet. Yes, this is what keeps me awake at night. Just wondering what actual, _real-live_ physicists think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-microcosm-ever-be-beautiful/457264/2 "2008-07-21T16:29:50Z")
Well, they _are_ all looking for the Grand Unified Theory. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-microcosm-ever-be-beautiful/457264/3 "2008-07-21T16:40:12Z")
Yehhh, I realize that. But even the big contenders like M-Theory lack a certain something that can be found in the macrocosm. I’m only lamenting the ugliness that starts to unfold, once we start to burrow down into the super tiny. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-microcosm-ever-be-beautiful/457264/4 "2008-07-21T16:48:42Z")
Another thing, is that if they don’t find the Higgs boson, what does that do to the Standard Model. Also, what’s it going to take experimentally prove String Theory. Even if the Higgs boson does indeed come onto the scene when the LHC goes online, how much farther to a unified theory will this get us?