Data Review Brings Major Setback In Higgs Boson Hunt

Velcroman1 writes "The quest for the elusive Higgs boson seemed over in April, when an unexpected result from an atom smasher seemed to herald the discovery of the famous particle — the last unproven piece of the physics puzzle and one of the great mysteries scientists face today. Scientists with the Tevatron particle accelerator at Chicago's Fermilab facility just released the results of a months-long effort by the lab's brightest minds to confirm the finding. What did they find? Nothing. 'We do not see the signal,' said Dmitri Denisov, staff scientist at Fermilab. 'If it existed, we would see it. But when we look at our data, we basically see nothing.'"

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What nonsense.

[Dr.Bob,DC]

If/when they ever find this "Higgs/Boson" thing, physicists will then invent another type of particle to search for to keep the grant money coming in.

Meanwhile alternative medicine, things that are SAVING LIVES EVERY DAY, get virtually no research money. Look through an issue of The Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research and tell me there's no interesting work being done just outside the realms of science.