CERN Announcing New LHC Results July 4th 226
An anonymous reader writes "The Higgs boson is regarded as the key to understanding the universe. Physicists say its job is to give the particles that make up atoms their mass. Without this mass, these particles would zip though the cosmos at the speed of light, unable to bind together to form the atoms that make up everything in the universe, from planets to people. From the article: 'Five leading theoretical physicists have been invited to the event on Wednesday - sparking speculation that the particle has been discovered. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider are expected to say they are 99.99 per cent certain it has been found - which is known as 'four sigma' level. Peter Higgs, the Edinburgh University emeritus professor of physics that the particle is named after, is among those who have been called to the press conference in Switzerland."
Re:when these genius people are 100% (Score:5, Interesting)
For 100% certainty you need religion
Or math, the queen of all sciences (ducks from flames)
Interesting how its the soft sciences and the archaeologists and bio majors who get all the heat from the fundies, but the math majors get no heat despite being arrogant WRT possession of the truth in general and their insistence that the value of PI is an unbiblical irrational number instead of gods written truth of exactly three.
Re:"one in a a trillion" event (Score:4, Interesting)
I wonder how many and what particles have been released by the high energy collisions happening in the universe since the big bang... Could there exist a significant field of some exotic particles just because of random head on collisions of cosmic rays in space?
Beyond the Higgs Boson? (Score:5, Interesting)
Fermilab Press Release today regarding the Higgs (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/2012/Higgs-Tevatron-20120702.html [fnal.gov]