Posted on 11/08/2014 6:14:39 PM PST by BenLurkin
Particle physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research announced 2 years ago they had discovered the Higgs particle, considered the foundation particle in the Standard Model of Particle physics, and a Nobel Prize was awarded to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert for their work on the theory of the Higgs boson.
Now, though, researchers at the University of Southern Denmark's Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics Phenomenology suggest that while the CERN scientists did discover a unique new particle, there's no conclusive evidence of it being the Higgs boson.
The Higgs could explain data obtained by CERN scientists using the Large Hadron Collider, but other particles could have created the data, suggesting there might be alternate explanations for it, they say in a paper published in the journal Physical Review D.
"The current data is not precise enough to determine exactly what the particle is," says university researcher Mads Toudal Frandsen. "It could be a number of other known particles."
One possibility is that the CERN team was seeing a theoretical particle dubbed the techni-higgs, he says.
"This particle is in some ways similar to the Higgs particle -- hence half of the name."
(Excerpt) Read more at techtimes.com ...
Grant money ping
Shocking! CERN may not have discovered elusive Higgs Boson particle after all
or
God Allusive to Foreign Exchange Students
No problem. Obama got a Nobel prize for nothing too.
I should have started a count-down timer....
Yep. Send more $$$$$.
I have always wondered how they can detect these particles, as anything around the size of a quark or smaller has not been measured and is purely theoretical.
The cast of “The Big Bang” will be wearing black arm bands.
No single piece of evidence is proof of any theory. Theories can be completely overthrown by simple counter-evidence, but establishing a theory takes a lot of supporting evidence.
Wonder if funding will dry up if they don’t find anything more or will they just have to invent stuff (like global warming)?
/johnny
#10 those that believe in the global baloney need no proof.
An electron, the first elementary particle discovered, has no discernible size, and is considered to have none in principle. It’s not that it has ZERO size, understand, it’s just that size is not one of its properties.
"By George, we've got it! Or maybe not..."
well it IS elusive...
Well, it’s a nice point.
That does it! ... I’m going back to good ol’ ... F=MA
Perhaps the most beautiful woman who ever graced the screen.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.