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Nima Arkani-Hamed (نیما ارکانی حامد — born April 5, 1972) is an Iranian-American-Canadian physicist, specializing in high-energy physics and string theory. Arkani-Hamed is now on the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study and won the 2012 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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The nature of really good questions and really good paradoxes and things that are worth spending a lifetime thinking about in this subject are simple.
This is the best few tens of billions years in the history of the universe to do cosmology.
The hierarchy problem is the elephant in the room. ... And it originally showed up in the context of doublet–triplet splitting problem.
... nature has very few good ideas — it recycles them in subtle and interesting ways, over and over again — and it's our job to understand how that works.
Whether in physics and mathematics or in the humanities, when something really finally works, it has a certain perfection to it, a feeling of inevitability, like it was so completely obvious all along, and it couldn't be any other way.
... for almost as long as people have been anticipating ... thinking about LHC physics, the prime candidate for new physics, beyond the Standard Model, ... has been supersymmetry.
The stakes are higher than the past. We aren’t asking about this or that particle, but something much more deeply structural about physical reality. … By far the best way to settle this question is to lead a charge to the highest possible energies and build a 100-TeV collider.
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