Science Higgs Boson found?

[JEL]

I love the fact that we can talk about instantaneousness as something other than an absolute ...

It doesn't appear to be considered an absolute:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/instantaneous

The definitions range between something that occurs with almost no delay to something that occurs within a time-frame that is below the minimum measurable (or defined as minimum measurable) limit.

 

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Discovery News: 'Interesting' Higgs Boson Result to be Announced:

It may not be the long-awaited news about a Higgs boson discovery, but an "interesting" announcement will soon come from scientists analyzing data from the Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab, near Batavia, Ill.

Although its house-sized particle detectors have seen their last high-energy collisions, huge quantities of Tevatron data have yet to be analyzed.

Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in Vancouver on Friday, Roser said: "We will be able to say something interesting, though whether it is that we don't see it or we do see it remains to be seen."

Long after the Tevatron powered down, physicists still had their work cut out. Many billions of particle interactions had been recorded by the CDF detector and stored for later analysis. By sifting through these data after the fact, a signal has started to reveal itself.

The signal appears to be growing at around the 125 gigaelectron volt range -- within a range of energy that LHC scientists are also seeing a "bump" in their datasets. This just happens to be one of the predicted energies that the Higgs boson may have.

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[thumper235]

I know I will never be able to have an understanding of physics like I want too. Being that I may not be smart enough to handle the subject like most, it doesnt stop me from spending countless hours reading and trying to learn about it.


Higgs-boson has been such a tease. Seems like a certain points we here re-assuring information that it will be found or they are close, or then I hear we are 95% sure it does not exist.

I also am owed a 50 Dollar bet with the LHC and global destruction. I have to wait 5 years though for the blackhole-bet that is supposedly going to appear. Some quack thinks that at or just after 5 years a blackhole will appear.

 

[Urwumpe]

I also am owed a 50 Dollar bet with the LHC and global destruction. I have to wait 5 years though for the blackhole-bet that is supposedly going to appear. Some quack thinks that at or just after 5 years a blackhole will appear.

A good deal, the likelyness of a black hole appearing is one to a few googols.

 

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Discovery News: Higgs Boson Finding is Near:

US-based physicists said Wednesday that their experiments confirm those from a major European atom-smasher's that have narrowed the range where the elusive Higgs boson particle could be hiding.

The results come from the now-defunct Tevatron collider, which closed down in September after nearly a quarter century, though physicists continue to analyze its data in the hunt for the so-called "God particle."

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[RisingFury]

A good deal, the likelyness of a black hole appearing is one to a few googols.

Who's feeling lucky? :lol:

 

[Keatah]

I think it's time to watch The Void again.

 

[fsci123]

How would we know the higgs boson is not there and not some other particle possibly WIMP?

 

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SPACE.com: Excitement Builds Over Expected Higgs Boson Announcement:

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LHC researchers plan to share their latest findings at the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) in Melbourne, Australia, from July 4-11.

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LiveScience: Excitement Builds Over Expected Higgs Boson Announcement

 

[Sky Captain]

So, when we should expect Higgs field manipulators for our jetpacks to hit market?

 

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Discovery News: I Spy: New App Lets You Hunt for 'Agent Higgs'

:lol:

 

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Discovery News: Higgs Boson Hunt: 'We've Discovered Something'

 

[Ghostrider]

Next: "Help! Something friggin' evil is coming through!"

 

[Arrowstar]

I guess we'll need to accelerate research on the BFG.

 

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Fermilab: Tevatron scientists announce their final results on the Higgs particle

Universe Today: Tevatron Targets Higgs Mass:

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Even after analyzing the data from 500 trillion collisions produced over the past decade at Fermilab’s Tevatron particle collider the Higgs particle has not been identified directly. But a narrower range for its mass has been established with some certainty: according to the research the Higgs, if it exists, has a mass between 115 and 135 GeV/c².

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Discovery News: Fermilab Announces Strong Higgs Boson 'Bump'

 

[Notebook]

BBC has woken up:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18702455

earlier article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18693744

To be fair, BBC News has ben covering the press conferences from CERN this morning.

N.

 

[N_Molson]

A French newspaper says it has been discovered with 99.9999 % of certainty :

http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2012/07/04/le-boson-de-higgs-decouvert-avec-99-9999-de-certitude_1728737_1650684.html

 

[Urwumpe]

Also covered by Spiegel Online:

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/...ung-von-teilchen-am-lhc-bekannt-a-842478.html (German)

 

[N_Molson]

Seems they catched it for good this time