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Large Hadron Collider rival Tevatron 'has found Higgs boson'
Telegraph ^
| June 12th, 2010
| Tom Chivers
Posted on 07/12/2010 4:13:37 PM PDT by TaraP
Rumours are emerging from the rival to the Large Hadron Collider that the Higgs boson, or so-called "God particle", has been found.
Tommaso Dorigo, a physicist at the University of Padua, has said in his blog that there has been talk coming out of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, that the Higgs has been discovered.
The Tevatron, the huge particle accelerator at Fermi - the most powerful in the world after the LHC - is expected to be retired when the CERN accelerator becomes fully operational, but may have struck a final blow before it becomes obsolete.
If one form of the rumour is to be believed - and Prof Dorigo is extremely circumspect about it - then it is a "three-sigma" signature, meaning that there is a statistical likelihood of 99.7 per cent that it is correct. But, of course, that is only if the rumour is to be believed.
In the post, titled "Rumors about a light Higgs", Prof Dorigo said: "It reached my ear, from two different, possibly independent sources, that an experiment at the Tevatron is about to release some evidence of a light Higgs boson signal.
"Some say a three-sigma effect, others do not make explicit claims but talk of a unexpected result."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: batavia; fermi; godparticle; hadroncollider; higgs; higgsboson; stringtheory; tevatron
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:13:39 PM PDT
by
TaraP
To: TaraP
This would be a really BIG DEAL, if it is true.
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:17:46 PM PDT
by
mathprof
To: TaraP
I found Cheryl Higgins’ bosom once. Does that count?
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:19:16 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Always refer to the Libs' new group as"ONE NATION, UNDER G-D!" That'll drive 'em nuts!)
To: TaraP
From my understanding, the Tevatron was _just_ on the edge of having enough theoretical energy to see the Higgs. Who knows, maybe they were right..
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:19:33 PM PDT
by
Paradox
(Socialism - trickle up poverty.)
To: Uncle Miltie
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:21:15 PM PDT
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop...........Eagle Scout since Sept 9, 1970)
To: mathprof
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:23:59 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: TaraP
Like the movie Contact. A second unknown site built.
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:25:15 PM PDT
by
edcoil
(OK, so what's the speed of dark?)
All I can say about this is....huh?
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:26:00 PM PDT
by
crghill
(You can't put a condom on your soul. Viva Arizona!)
To: Paradox
Just on the edge of seeing one of several Higg's bosons ~ or maybe the Higg's boson predicted with THE STANDARD MODEL. If this is just the lightest of a group, then THE STANDARD MODEL gets chucked, a whole bunch of physicists careers restart, and other stuff happens ~ or not.
The Atheists will continue to kvetch about "the God particle" appellation as if that's important, or that they are important ~ which they aren't. Who cares about the sensitivity of Atheists' ears anyway.
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:26:58 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: mathprof
To: muawiyah
How will we know they found it, and didn’t just say they found it? Will there just be a fuzzy picture, like those of Bigfoot or Nessie? :-)
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:30:46 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. ~Ayn Rand)
To: Uncle Miltie
So you were boson buddies? :-)
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:31:42 PM PDT
by
sourcery
(Government should be as powerless as possible, while still able to protect individual rights)
To: Bratch
Don’t anger the anti-matter...
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:32:57 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Political correctness in America today is a Rip Van Winkle acid trip.)
To: Bratch
Sophia Loren is on the left but who is the blond on the right?
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:33:14 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: Larry Lucido
The way I understand it is that once we’ve found it, the world ends. Hope that helps.
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:33:29 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
To: Uncle Miltie
Only if you have pictures.
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:34:04 PM PDT
by
wolfpat
(Moderate=Clueless)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
So can I max out my charge cards yet?
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:35:47 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. ~Ayn Rand)
To: StormEye
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:36:37 PM PDT
by
lonevoice
(I can see November from my house!)
To: TaraP
John Bigboote: Laugh while you can, monkey boy.
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:36:42 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
To: crghill
"Large Hadron Collider rival Tevatron 'has found Higgs boson'"
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posted on
07/12/2010 4:37:01 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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