Associate Professor Mads Toudal Frandsen, University of Southern Denmark Credit: University of Southern Denmark
Associate Professor Mads Toudal Frandsen, University of Southern Denmark Credit: University of Southern Denmark
How embarrassing.
Techni-Higgs and not Techno-Higgs?
wouldn’t it be something if just like the universe is infinitely large, it is also infinitely small ?
Or maybe not...
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.
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 heard somewhere that if the LHC can’t find the Higgs Boson then the math which predicted it needs to be looked at for errors.
News reports about this “discovery” were often expressed with qualifications, and interviewed experts often refused to put their reputations on the line by bluntly saying, “Yes, this is the Higgs particle.”
I also thought the emotional response of the Physics community was subdued.
I'll guess that when the quark was confirmed in 1968, there was real jubilation and many physicists were thrilled.
The fact that it cost $6 billion to build the LHC, and another $1 billion each year to run and maintain it, might be a powerful incentive to mislead the public about what exactly was discovered.
didn’t they notice the little “H” on each particle???
