[Carry_Okie]

Have they discovered it in nature or mathematically? If mathematically, than it's still hypothetics.

From the excerpt above:

"They made the statement following study of the data gathered last year from the world's largest atom-smasher." Unless somebody cooked the numbers, it looks more like nature.

[celmak]

From another article:

"But the two experiments, CMS and ATLAS, hadn't collected enough data to say the particle was, for sure, the Higgs boson, the last undiscovered piece of the puzzle predicted by the Standard Model, the reigning theory of particle physics.

http://news.yahoo.com/confirmed-newfound-particle-higgs-130317830.html

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