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No Higgs Just Yet
gbrumfiel writes "Last month, scientists reported a number of 'excess events' that could be caused by the appearance of the long-sought Higgs boson inside the LHC. But it looks like they'll have to put the champagne back on ice. New data presented at a conference in India shows no new signs of the Higgs. The signal was probably just a statistical fluctuation."
just a higg-up.
What kind of "faith" exposes itself to falsification through experimentation? What kind of "faith" in an entity has all of its greatest practitioners carving out all the places where we can be sure it doesn't exist, and prepared to face the potential truth that it simply doesn't at all? What kind of "faith" is based on making educated guesses at first, but ultimately wanting to know one way or another, of demanding evidence?
Oh right, no kind of faith. That's kinda what "faith" means.
But go ahead and keep on projecting.
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In this case, it looks like he really is projecting. Projecting a giant "WHOOOOOOSH!" right past you.
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
The Kruger-Dunning effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect. The less you know about something, the more certain you are that your intuitions about it are correct.