Hello @lemouth,

I save the reading of your wonderful blog until the hustle and bustle of routine activity has faded and I have time to sit and concentrate. This I did in the morning on my iPad (easier reading on the iPad than the desktop).

This time, I think I got it all. Not that I could explain it to anyone, but as I read I related it to more mundane activities. For example, removing the Higgs boson reminded me of trying to reconcile my checkbook (I gave that up and turned it over to my husband😆). It would make sense if only I could get rid of one item. But I know that item exists somewhere, somehow, so I have to allow for it in some way.

And then when it comes to background. I kept thinking of riding in an old fashioned stagecoach. I want it to go faster, but the faster it goes (yield of time saved), the more noise the wheels make (background). So I have to find another way to get somewhere, not a carriage, but a new machine that achieves my purpose without creating all that background.

I hope this makes sense to you because it does to me 😇: there is the issue of reconciling data, given what you know and then the issue of looking for new particles to do that, but background prevents detection of the new particles. Another kind of machine is necessary.

I hope I didn't mangle everything. Thank you for taking us on this journey, which is speculative, and yet based firmly in science.

Have a wonderful, safe productive week.

Regards...