[PatrickHenry]

Place your bets!

[PatrickHenry]

Science list Ping! This is an elite subset of the Evolution list.
See the list's description in my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail me to be added or dropped.

[Physicist]

Take the Higgs bet. The only way the Higgs won't be discovered at CERN is if the LHC doesn't run (for whatever reason), or if Fermilab gets there first (unlikely).

The Higgs will be discovered whether it exists or not. This is because if there is no Higgs, the W bosons become strongly interacting, and form a particle called a technirho, which behaves like a Higgs and plays a very similar role. But even if that's wrong, SOMETHING has to break the electroweak symmetry, and has to do it at an energy below 1 TeV. The behavior of that something is pretty tightly constrained.

[RightWingAtheist]

Huygens would have loved this. He was the first major systemizer on probability theory.

[edwin hubble]

Thanks for the post. Big Science is the frontier (and it costs big money).

and maybe..wagering on the big science the breakthrough might be a good addition to TradeSports.

[general_re]

Twenty quatloos on the newcomer!