Associate Professor Mads Toudal Frandsen, University of Southern Denmark Credit: University of Southern Denmark
Posted on 11/09/2014 4:21:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Last year CERN announced the finding of a new elementary particle, the Higgs particle. But maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle, maybe it just looks like it. And maybe it is not alone.
Many calculations indicate that the particle discovered last year in the CERN particle accelerator was indeed the famous Higgs particle. Physicists agree that the CERN experiments did find a new particle that had never been seen before, but according to an international research team, there is no conclusive evidence that the particle was indeed the Higgs particle...
"The CERN data is generally taken as evidence that the particle is the Higgs particle. It is true that the Higgs particle can explain the data but there can be other explanations, we would also get this data from other particles", Mads Toudal Frandsen explains. The researchers' analysis does not debunk the possibility that CERN has discovered the Higgs particle. That is still possible - but it is equally possible that it is a different kind of particle.
"The current data is not precise enough to determine exactly what the particle is. It could be a number of other known particles", says Mads Toudal Frandsen. But if it wasn't the Higgs particle, that was found in CERN's particle accelerator, then what was it?
"We believe that it may be a so-called techni-higgs particle. This particle is in some ways similar to the Higgs particle - hence half of the name", says Mads Toudal Frandsen.
Although the techni-higgs particle and Higgs particle can easily be confused in experiments, they are two very different particles belonging to two very different theories of how the universe was created.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Associate Professor Mads Toudal Frandsen, University of Southern Denmark Credit: University of Southern Denmark
How embarrassing.
Bozo(n)s
Techni-Higgs and not Techno-Higgs?
Easy to see how one could be confused...
Please add me to the string theory list and any similar lists you might have.
kinda like Reese’s Crunchy peanut butter cups ?
The same as regular Reese’s, but different.
wouldn’t it be something if just like the universe is infinitely large, it is also infinitely small ?
Or maybe not...
Great, now I want to watch Animal House again.
It’s like getting pantsed. :’)
“How embarrassing.”
Actually, since mass media and the possibility to become famous in science essentially overnight, lots of bad science has been reported as a ‘breakthrough’, and too many things have been reported without rigorous testing and vetting.
I’m actually sickened by where science currently is.
Which explanation best accounts for the random disappearance of socks from the laundry ;?
Remember, Higgs was touted as the ‘God’ particle, the holy grail of the political-science left. Because if God was just a particle, then man could claim dominance.
Like global warming and peak oil and a hundred other liberal-utopian dreams of science, this one appears to have been another PR over reach.
Don’t worry, they’ll have another soon enough.
The science is settled! Stop the discussion. (Sarc)
Actually, it was determined that the particle was fly poop on the computer screen. Scientists cannot determine the exact type of fly without DNA testing and a further 10 billion dollars in additional grants.
If there was a known similar particle (this “tehcni-Higgs” particle) why wasn’t that ruled out before publication of any findings?
Oh, great. One step forward. Two steps backward.
I think Higgs served in the navy.
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