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Higgs Boson Discovered?!

Apropos to nothing, my kids always mock my pronunciation of almost everything (sometimes correctly). Anyway my youngest son, who actually knew what I was talking about, took issue with my pronunciation of "boson". Until a physicist came on the news and said it the same way.

Yes, a rather pathetic win.
 
Call me when they find the "mother of god" particle, the Higgs bosom which gives all existence a meaning, not mere mass. :D
 
commandlinegamer said:
Wouldn't it be ironic that in the year of the Earth ending (thanks Mayans!), we discover how the universe works?
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My apologies if this post inspires an actual woo product...
 
ben m said:
CMS results:

The two high-resolution, actually-see-a-peak searches (Higgs decaying to two photons, and Higgs decaying to two Z-bosons, both decaying to ee or mu mu) combine for a 5+ sigma discovery. Clear as a bell, you can see the Higgs peaks with the naked eye. In the ZZ channel that means what looked like (eyeballing my memory of the viewgraph) 7-8 Higgs-like events on top of a nearly zero background.

Several the other channels, of the sort that see broad mass-insensitive excesses, have slightly lower-than-expected counts, which pulls the all-combined discovery number to 4.9 sigma.

The ATLAS talk is ongoing ...
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Excellent! :)

I'm off to check out the entire presentation now.
 
Maartenn100 said:
If a pseudoscientist would mention 'it could be this' or 'it could be that', the critical thinker would answer: 'it could be this or that' is no science at all.
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Except you have it exactly backwards.
The pseudoscientist usually says "The answer is this! Even though I have no evidence and no math."
The scientist says "Here's the evidence and math supporting this, but one can never be certain, it could be always something else."
 
Btw, does anyone know when we could expect to see the official, scientific journal article on this discovery published? I would very much like to read that article.
 
If you think this "God particle" nonsense is annoying now(not that I don't think this is a great discovery, I just don't like how this "God" label got attached to it), wait till the movie version of the discovery of the Higgs Boson at the CERN atom-smasher comes out. The film-makers will definitely play up the whole "God" angle. They may even twist it around into something like the "Da Vinci Code" and have Tom Hanks staring in it.

I'm pretty sure it won't even be worth seeing. Still, I definitely love reading about this discovery and its implications on physics and all science.
 
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