%0 Journal Article %T Four statements about the fourth generation %A Holdom Bob %A Hou WS %A Hurth Tobias %A Mangano Michelangelo L %J PMC Physics A %D 2009 %I PhysMath Central %R 10.1186/1754-0410-3-4 %X This summary of the Workshop "Beyond the 3-generation SM in the LHC era" presents a brief discussion of the following four statements about the fourth generation: 1) It is not excluded by EW precision data; 2) It addresses some of the currently open questions; 3) It can accommodate emerging possible hints of new physics; 4) LHC has the potential to discover or fully exclude it. PACS codes: 12.60.-i; 14.60. Hi; 14.80.-j %U http://www.physmathcentral.com/1754-0410/3/4