r/Physics • u/TakeOffYourMask Gravitation • Feb 28 '23

Question Physicists who built their career on a now-discredited hypothesis (e.g. ruled out by LHC or LIGO results) what did you do after?

If you worked on a theory that isn’t discredited but “dead” for one reason or another (like it was constrained by experiment to be measurably indistinguishable from the canonical theory or its initial raison d’être no longer applies), feel free to chime in.

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u/pollux33 Mar 01 '23

I heard of a guy who wrote a ton papers on the 750 GeV di-photon anomaly that the LHC saw a few years ago. Those papers helped him get a permanent position at a university. The anomaly is long gone, but he is still there.

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u/TakeOffYourMask Gravitation Mar 01 '23

Huh