The curveball is that we don’t understand the mass of the Higgs, which is about 125 times the mass of a hydrogen atom.
When we discovered the Higgs, the first thing we expected was to find these other new supersymmetric particles, because the mass we measured was unstable without their presence, but we haven’t found them yet. (If the Higgs field collapsed, we could bubble out into a different universe — and of course that hasn’t happened yet.)
That has been a little bit crushing; for 20 years I’ve been chasing the supersymmetrical particles. So we’re like deer in the headlights: We didn’t find supersymmetry, we didn’t find dark matter as a particle.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The curveball is that we don’t understand the mass of the Higgs, which is about 125 times the mass of a hydrogen atom.
When we discovered the Higgs, the first thing we expected was to find these other new supersymmetric particles, because the mass we measured was unstable without their presence, but we haven’t found them yet. (If the Higgs field collapsed, we could bubble out into a different universe — and of course that hasn’t happened yet.)
That has been a little bit crushing; for 20 years I’ve been chasing the supersymmetrical particles. So we’re like deer in the headlights: We didn’t find supersymmetry, we didn’t find dark matter as a particle." in the context of "as quoted by Dennis Overbye in (January 24, 2023), "Physics and the Future", The New York Times page: 1, Section D" to mean that wisdom is timeless.