Why All the Higgs Hate? It's a 'Vanilla' Boson 205
astroengine writes "Decades of searching and a 7.5 billion Euro particle accelerator later, why is everyone so down on one of the biggest discoveries of the century? Well, as the evidence strengthens for a bona fide signal of a 'Standard Model' Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV, many scientists are disappointed that the discovery of an 'ordinary' — or 'vanilla' according to Caltech cosmologist Sean Carroll — Higgs removes any doubt for more exotic physics beyond the Standard Model. It's a strange juxtaposition; a profound discovery that's also an anticlimax. But to confirm the identity of the Higgs candidate, LHC physicists still need to measure the particle's spin. 'Until we can confidently tie down the particle's spin,' said CERN Research Director Sergio Bertolucci at this week's Rencontres de Moriond conference in Italy, 'the particle will remain Higgs-like. Only when we know that is has spin-zero will we be able to call it a Higgs.'"
Clearly, CERN should have... (Score:4, Funny)
...worked on finding the hugs boson first.
Re:Already Wrong and it's only 2013 (Score:1, Funny)
It's made of the extra apostrophes that seemingly intelligent people put into possessive pronouns. So you understand radical and exotic physics, but can't tell its from it's?
A Higgs Boson walks into a church. (Score:4, Funny)
A Higgs Boson walks into a church. The pastor says "we don't allow your kind in here." The which he is replied, "but without me, how can you have Mass?"
Re:Already Wrong and it's only 2013 (Score:2, Funny)
Yes yes, you majored in English instead of something interesting like physics, the regret must be crushing...but do try to keep it to yourself.