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by SiempreViernes 2062 days ago
> Spend $20bn on some new models, and then you can spend $20bn chasing the most interesting prospects.

This is a very incorrect description of the problem. The situation in basic particle physics is that models are super plentiful; Six months in 2016 saw 500 different papers written to explain a novel signal that ended up not being real, so it's not models that are missing.