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This is the best few tens of billions years in the history of the universe to do cosmology.

— Nima Arkani-Hamed

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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.

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.

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