The biggest problem is not that the Higgs field/boson/theory is wrong. Nor that BICEP2 is wrong.

The biggest problem is that physicists do not want a new theory. Everyone gets paid and paid well to keep doing the usual stuff -- CMB, inflation, Big Bang, String Theory, smashing particles together and looking for the oldest star.

Physicists prefer stuff known to be wrong over stuff that might be right.

Your's is the worst kind of anecdote -- non-typical usage.

You rented a car for a week so:
(1) you wanted to have fun driving around...in a battery-weighted car
(2) you were not going to be spending one to two hours a day in rush hour traffic...that a Prius was designed for
(3) because you were going to be doing more than typical amounts of highway driving...that a Prius is neutered by

Three strikes, your anecdote is out.

And it would get better gas mileage than a hybrid Prius for those driving mostly highway (or non stop-and-go) miles.

When I first started putting games into arcades, players would play for an hour on a single quarter. My Double Dragon machine was a complete waste of money.
Then I got smart and bought some of those arcade-killer games...

I propose an experiment. Run one article per day that allows no moderations. I'd suggest it be a political subject, as moderations are useless in those anyway.

8B T/yr, times $2.22/T.

I think a problem with a potential downside of $17,760,000,000 is, well, a problem.

"for the masses"?

Ah, no. Unless there is a plan to divy up $2B that I don't know about.

So the new cycles are: Tick/Tock/Wow, new capacitors.

The article, amazingly poorly written by the way, mentions exactly zero changes to the chip itself.

We are given "new caps, new glue, and you can overclock it for more performance".

I'm off to ask my doctor to start me on Prozac...

I'm curious if data centers are moving to SSDs.
Also, what about hosting companies, for high traffic web sites they host. I could see this as a premium service.

The Music Man...

More on this.

Our knowledge tends to be high in the middle of the spectrum.

When we try to grasp the entire Universe, we end up looking at pixels of info. We know little and speculate much.

Similarly, at the smallest scales we have to resort to atom smashing to learn a bit and speculate a lot.

This theory suggests that life is LEGO-like after all. Once we know this underlying pattern, we can look for it, and we can use it to build better models of stuff very large and very small.

I would add that these results are consistent with my own theory.

Yes, and still paying out. Every year we fill out a form, drive to our local dealer so they can read how many miles we drove that year and then get a proportional check for our Kia Soul. :-)

The first reason to listen to new ideas is that our present understanding(s) -- theories -- of the universe are majorly flawed.

Wikipedia's List of the Unsolved Problems in Physics has hundreds of questions -- most of them just the flaws in the most "mainstream" theories.

What is your plan for fixing these broken theories? My plan is here.

because MPFI additional expense on a small block is just not justified.

Max Planck Florida Institute, for those wondering...Google got it on the first hit!