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Higgs Signal Gains Strength
ananyo writes "Today the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, submitted the results of their latest analyses. The new papers (here here and here) boost the case for December's announcement of a possible Higgs signal. Physicists working on the In the case of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, have been able to look at another possible kind of Higgs decay, and that allows them to boost their Higgs signal from 2.5 sigma to 3.1 sigma. Taken together with data from the other detector, ATLAS, Higgs' overall signal now unofficially stands at about 4.3 sigma."
Full blown Higgs signal. And the world will turn inside out and we will become Mole People and mocked by a future human and his 2 robot friends.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
That was almost a haiku if you drag "wire" out into two syllables, but the last line completely strays. What about this?
Synchrotron light source
Positron tomography
Superconductors
So, we can detect Higgs but we can't detect multiple typos in the damn summary? Really?
I've just checked... There is no TYPO detector at CERN so that'll explain that problem!
Don't worry. The higgs exists. If it doesn't they will fabricate it. They have to because if they don't then they might have to finally reveal the truth.
I left my statistics degree in my other pants... is 4.3 sigma a good thing? How many sigmas is "certainty"?
It's not good enough. They've got a good way to go before they achieve Six Sigma.
To make that goal, these scientists should probably go on a retreat, spend some time on team building exercises, and practice dynamic solution strategies, so that they can build up the synergies they need to deliver agile, customer-facing world class results that deliver a genuine Six Sigma experience.
So what you are saying is his transcription is accurate, to +/- 1 sigma?
Who's the joker who +1'd the paranoid schizophrenic?
“Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out of it, but that is not the reason we are doing it. ”
Richard P. Feynman
CERN is then a damn expensive bitch but so far we are far from a happy ending.
This is about as certain as ... taxes ...
Doesn't that make it 99%?