News Are there two Higgs Bosons?

[XSSA]

New data from the CERN might suggest that there are two Higgs Bosons! The data clearly shows what appears to be 2 differently massed Higgs particles.

More here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/there-may-be-two-higgs-boson-particles-2012-12

 

[Urwumpe]

If this is true, theoretical physicists have job security for the next years. :lol:

 

[Capt_hensley]

Right now it's still a theory, but if they can confirm the observations, this would be an interesting twist... I say we build another super collider in the US and make parallel experiments to confirm the initial findings.

It would create new jobs, and help the economy.:thumbup:

 

[mojoey]

Right now it's still a theory, but if they can confirm the observations, this would be an interesting twist... I say we build another super collider in the US and make parallel experiments to confirm the initial findings.

It would create new jobs, and help the economy.:thumbup:

Let's level New Jersey and use the whole state as a super collider. Flinging Guidos at each other at c would be valuable to science.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Poor reporting!

Oh wow, this is yet another extremely bad scientific reporting by the media (Scientific American! :blink.......... here's a blog post recommended by one of my friends who had actually worked at CERN the past summer explaining what actually happened: http://profmattstrassler.com/2012/12/17/two-higgs-bosons-no-evidence-for-that/

 

[Keatah]

God I hope not. We don't know what to do with one Higgs, let alone two..:facepalm:

 

[RisingFury]

God I hope not. We don't know what to do with one Higgs, let alone two..:facepalm:

Watchamawhat?!

 

[Eccentrus]

Well as Niels Bohr put it "good, another paradox to work on"

 

[Izack]

Well, if there were only one Higgs, what would be the chances of it being in this galaxy, let alone Switzerland? So this should double our chances of finding at least one of them!

 

[Capt_hensley]

http://profmattstrassler.com/2012/12/17/two-higgs-bosons-no-evidence-for-that/

OK so what I take away from this article, is there has been no observation of any Higgs particle at all, just some data that reflects we are getting closer to seeing it.

Again NO HIGGS YET!

IMHO...