Higgs boson must be seriesly hugh!
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 ...
If the significance can be explained in layperson’s terms, I’d sure like to have a go at understanding it.
Seriously. we barely won the last time.
Jayne Mansfield.
They are real and they are spectatular.
Let me guess. You were born after 1958 or so.
Higgs boson must be seriesly hugh!
Spock would say, “Fascinating.”
I mean GRAVITY = G! Jeez, you people.
Wow! That would be absolutely amazing, if true!!!
Incredible.....hope it’s true.
Or as VPOTUS Bite-Me would say, a Big F***ing Deal.
D'oh. Stupid irony!
The Higgs boson is the only Standard Model particle that has not been observed and is thought to be the mediator of mass. Experimental detection of the Higgs boson would help explain the origin of mass in the universe. The Higgs boson would explain the difference between the massless photon, which mediates electromagnetism, and the massive W and Z bosons, which mediate the weak force. If the Higgs boson exists, it is an integral and pervasive component of the material world
And this is important, why?
Elementary particles are a big deal, and the Higgs one has been postulated for some time, but it has been elusive to find. Go here to read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_particle
The one on the right is blonde? *\;-)
(Or are you saying it's a he?)
You still around??
Thanks. I thought it was Jayne Mansfield but I wasn’t sure.
You guessed wrong. Before 1958.
looks like the Flux Capacitor,Does it come with a Delorean?
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