New Bounds On the Higgs Boson Mass

As the LHC continues to run at half power for the next year+, the US-based Tevatron continues to crank out results. Reader hweimer writes "Three new papers in Physical Review Letters present the latest results for the Higgs boson mass coming from Fermilab's Tevatron. The new data mandates that the Higgs boson mass within the standard model lies between 115 and 150 GeV." A year back we discussed the Tevatron's previous shrinking of the search space for the Higgs "God particle."

Re:first!!!!!!

[blakelarson]

I'd say your place lies between first and eighth...

Aw shucks...

[piemcfly]

So much for Europe being the new frontier for science.

Oh well, I suppose we can always turn the LHC into an expensive underground parking for the Genevans...
500 park jobs per day at a cheap 10dollars an hour... with luck we'll have our money back somewhere around the year 7010...

Re:wasteful

[annex1]

I actually had to read your post 3 times, just to see if I could detect sarcasm. The gene pool called and it would like you to GTFO.

Re:wasteful

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sure nobody technically gives a fuck about electrons either, until we made TVs and computer monitors

Seriously, what planet are you fucking on? You reckon (laughing to myself) that nobody gave a fuck about electrons until 'we made TVs' ?!?

Re:To be clear what this means.

[Dachannien]

These are bounds for the mass of the Higgs boson assuming it exists. If it doesn't exist, this data is meaningless.

Film narrator: Remember, it's up to us. Bigfoot is a crucial part of the ecosystem, if he exists. So let's all help keep Bigfoot possibly alive for future generations to enjoy unless he doesn't exist. The end!

The LHC goes to eleven

[hackerman]

but the tevatron does more at ten

Re:The LHC goes to eleven

[julien dot]

For $2,000 I'll build you one that goes to 12.

Re:wasteful

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously, what planet are you fucking on? You reckon (laughing to myself) that nobody gave a fuck about electrons until 'we made TVs' ?!?

He's posting on slashdot. Chances are, he's not fucking on *any* planet.

Re:Conversion to mass in kg

[biryokumaru]

Ah, yes, the old imperial to metric conversion. In the states, we still use the old "Library of Congress" standard unit system. I think the LoC to DPb conversion is 3.2x10^7 books / 40 DDs.

can a Higgs Boson fly Southwest?

[YesIAmAScript]

Or is it massive enough that it must purchase two seats?

Re:Conversion to mass in kg

[ehrichweiss]

Stop using these arbitrary units of measure. Just tell me how many station wagons of backup tapes this is..

Re:wasteful

[Anonymous Coward]

Well said. Fundamental knowledge about the most basic building blocks of reality are useless and a waste of money. That money should have gone to the banking or auto sector.

Re:Conversion to mass in kg

[mbone]

You should consider cosmology. That's the only field I know of where errors at the 10^54 level might be acceptable.

Aether

[Barncs]

How long will it take to realize that Aether theory had a lot of things right? I don't know much about anything, but I do have a feeling when things feel right. Up until Mr. Einstein, aether was it. The more I see the less I like, and I really wonder how long it will take before science realizes that we are, in fact, in the soup.

Re:Conversion to mass in kg

[daveime]

You should consider climatology. That's the only field I know of where errors at the 10^54 level is not only acceptable but believed as gospel by the world's governments.

FTFY

Re:wasteful

[daveime]

The banking sector aren't that dissimilar from quantum physicists ... they deal with gigantic magnitudes of imaginary "wealth" that ceases to exists as soon as someone actually scrutinizes the figures and collapses the waveform, causing it all to disappear.

Still at least we've managed to capture the Madoff Particle.

Re:Conversion to mass in kg

[somersault]

Actually, one Dolly Parton's bosom (DDb) just happens to be exactly the same mass as that of a Double Decker Bus (DDB). Confusing, but convenient!

Re:wasteful

[Jedi Alec]

The banking sector aren't that dissimilar from quantum physicists ... they deal with gigantic magnitudes of imaginary "wealth" that ceases to exists as soon as someone actually scrutinizes the figures and collapses the waveform, causing it all to disappear.

Still at least we've managed to capture the Madoff Particle.

Yay, thanks for that. Now I'm scared to check my bank account balance. So long as I don't look, the money might still be there...

Schrodinger's Savings and Loans anyone?