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To: PatrickHenry
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.

4 posted on 08/27/2004 7:42:51 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
The Higgs will be discovered whether it exists or not.

This could turn up in a creationist quote salad someday. ;)

5 posted on 08/27/2004 8:34:56 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: Physicist
The Higgs will be discovered whether it exists or not.

Works for me.

7 posted on 08/27/2004 9:07:34 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: Physicist
Take the Higgs bet.

Will I get a free subscription to the British edition of Penthouse if I win?

9 posted on 08/27/2004 10:04:41 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (<A HREF=http://www.michaelmoore.com>stupid blob</A>)
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