http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/22/us-science-higgs-idUSTRE77L5KS20110822?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest
One step forward, one step.... The hunt for truth continues.
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... funny how that works ... within the past two weeks some folks at CERN were hinting at finding supporting evidence ... this week they're looking for evidence of support ... change is your friend!
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Stephen Hawking placed a $100 bet that the LHC would not find the Higgs Boson. His comment on why is interesting-
"I think it will be much more exciting if we don't find the Higgs. That will show something is wrong, and we need to think again. I have a bet of $100 that we won't find the Higgs,"
chipdatajeffB: Change is great. They are working. Ha.
TeleNoob: They are back, check it out.
abcnews.go.com/.../story
Here's more on the upcoming announcement and the rumors surrounding it.
www.latimes.com/.../la-sci-sn-higgs-boson-discovery-speculation-20120702,0,7065933.story
www.redorbit.com/.../cern-to-reveal-higgs-boson-findings-july-4
Dave Mitsky
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I think this is one of those things that needs time and much pondering to interpret the evidence. Early claims either way seem to be the fashion these days but I for one will just sit back and see how it all shakes out in a few years. Lots of papers will be written by these folks soon enough.
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A nebula in the eyepiece is worth two in the Atlas.
Well, this certainly clears things up...
www.bloomberg.com/.../cern-removes-video-saying-physicists-found-higgs-like-particle.html
I think if true it will be something that string theory actually predicted. The standard string theory model predicted the existence of the higgs boson, including the value of its mass at 115-140 GeV
DaveMitsky Well, this certainly clears things up... www.bloomberg.com/.../cern-removes-video-saying-physicists-found-higgs-like-particle.html Dave Mitsky
Here's an article, and a very good one, with a (shudder) graph:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/04/higgs/
The official CERN press release is posted at press.web.cern.ch/.../PR17.12E.html
A Scientific American article on the topic appears at www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm
Thank you, for the information. It's great to see something which came from the LHC.
Telenoob : Do you know if the string theory specifies their higgs boson as a spinless composite boson or spinless vector boson ( with degrees of freedom within hidden dimensions )? Just wondering if they consider mass as an intrinsic similar to a charge? Thank for your information.
Primordial Thank you, for the information. It's great to see something which came from the LHC.