Growing Consensus: The Higgs Boson Exists 254
It's a long, slow road from tentative discovery, to various forms of peer review, to wide acceptance, never mind theory and experimental design, but recent years' work to pin down the Higgs Boson seem to be bearing fruit in the form of cautious announcements. FBeans writes with excerpts from both the New York Times ("Physicists announced Thursday they believe they have discovered the subatomic particle predicted nearly a half-century ago, which will go a long way toward explaining what gives electrons and all matter in the universe size and shape.") and from The Independent ("Cern says that confirming what type of boson the particle is could take years and that the scientists would need to return to the Large Hadron Collider — the world's largest 'atom smasher' — to carry out further tests. This will measure at what rate the particle decays and compare it with the results of predictions, as theorised by Edinburgh professor Peter Higgs 50 years ago.")
Cheap Chinese knock off? (Score:5, Funny)
What is this Higgs Bosun?
That damn apostrophe (Score:4, Funny)
Thank's for all your hard work, editor's.
scientists confirm the existence of (Score:2, Funny)
Bigg Bosoms
New Sci-Fi Macguffin (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Lord... the creature's power comes from electricity | radiation | tachyons | nanobots | god particles!
Does this mean the Higgs Boson 'Thinks'? (Score:3, Funny)
Or would that be putting Descartes before the force?
Re:What is in the name? (Score:5, Funny)
It's just short for Goddamn particle, because it was so hard to find..
This is how... (Score:5, Funny)
... physicists celebrate mass.
Re:That damn apostrophe (Score:4, Funny)
Global Higgsing (Score:5, Funny)
The Higgs is merely a liberal myth to get funding from big government by Photoshoping particle path photos using smelly hippie open-source software to claim they almost detected it.
Next those commie atheist Sharia liberal hippies will tell you that subatomic particles work the same way inside poor people that they do inside wealthy job creators!
Equality of physics? What's next, free sunshine?
And those damned neutrinos CANNOT go through us Republicans. We have guns! Neutrinos only pass through surrendering cowards!