Rumors of Higgs Boson Discovery At LHC

Magnifico writes "LiveScience is reporting that scientists are abuzz over a controversial rumor that the 'God particle' has been detected by a particle-detection experiment at LHC at CERN. The Higgs boson rumor is based on what appears to be a leaked internal note from physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 17-mile-long particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. It's not entirely clear at this point if the memo is authentic... The buzz started when an anonymous commenter recently posted an abstract of the note on Columbia University mathematician Peter Woit's blog, Not Even Wrong. This could be a flat-out hoax or a statistical anomaly or... confirmation of the particle that bestows mass on all the other particles."

Comments

Stop Calling it "The God Particle"

[Nailer235]

Discovering the Higgs Boson would be a huge confirmation of the Standard Model, but it seems like the only reason popular culture cares about it is because of its stupid nickname. Can we just agree to stop calling it "The God Particle?"

Re:It's little more than speculation

[Anonymous Coward]

This numbered rating shit by men needs to stop.

Next you'll be asking us to come over for a pyjama party to criticised her looks in detail.

There's only one rating system that's right and proper for men to use:

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[ ] Would not

Re:More detail for non-scientists

[FeepingCreature]

Beautiful. They should have hired you for Look Around You S2.

Re:Nah it's just

[Angostura]

... most of those scientists could afford their own labs. Not because they had a lab, then discovered something, but because they discovered something, then bought a lab with the proceeds from that discovery.

Actually, I think you'll find that many, perhaps most of those scientists were actually either independently wealthy gentry who pursued science as a gentlemanly hobby, or were lucky enough to have wealthy patrons.