  It is thought that the emergence of the "nightmare scenario" at the LHC could
be a serious crisis for particle physics that could require radical new
concepts and even a major paradigm change. A root cause may have been
exaggeration of the significance of asymptotic freedom, leading to the
historically profound mistake of formulating new short-distance extensions of
the Standard Model while ignoring both serious infra-red problems and central
elements of long-distance physics. In fact, pursuit of the uniquely unitary
Critical Pomeron leads to a possible gauge theory origin for the Standard Model
that is both radical and paradigm changing, but also explains many mysteries. A
bound-state S-Matrix embedded in a unique weak coupling massless SU(5) field
theory emerges. The states and interactions of the Standard Model are enhanced,
and the underlying SU(5) unification suppressed, by a wee parton divergence
phenomenon involving wee gauge bosons coupled to S-Matrix massless fermion
anomalies. Confinement, chiral symmetry breaking, the parton model, electroweak
symmetry breaking, dark matter, and neutrino masses, all appear to be present.
Most significantly, perhaps, there is a Higgs boson but, as seen experimentally
at the LHC, there is no new short-distance physics. The only new physics is
electroweak-scale QCD interactions due to color sextet quarks.
