Scientists 99.999% sure Higgs boson has been found

notarobotsays...


VoodooVsays...

so did they or didn't they?

every article I've read announces they've found it! but in the article itself they backpedal and say that they're pretty sure they found it.

I loves me my science but they are notorious for hyping up stuff like this only for the hype to not measure up.

GeeSussFreeKsays...

>> ^VoodooV:

so did they or didn't they?
every article I've read announces they've found it! but in the article itself they backpedal and say that they're pretty sure they found it.
I loves me my science but they are notorious for hyping up stuff like this only for the hype to not measure up.


They found a blip which is a particle that resembles the Higgs, they have yet to determine if it is a boson. Bosons are usually the force carriers, so this is important if it is the fit into the understanding of what the Higgs is in the standard model (a force carrier for mass). If it turns out to be a fermion, or crazy worse, a lepton (very improbable), then we will have to go back to the drawing board for the standard model. Also, the Higgs is seemingly lighter than predicted, this causes some math issues with zero-point energy. With as much as a full gigaelectron volt difference between the 2 detectors for the Higgs, there is still a lot of work to do. That isn't to understate the importance of this, there is something going on.

vaire2ubesays...

finding the new mass within 4.9 standard deviations is using a huge amount of work on the precision of the tool, thus the necessity for such large equipment. The key for even laymen here is to understand the concept of standard deviations, something you will find in a finite mathematics course and statistic courses. quite impressive!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation

ps Dr Hawking is so god damn charming lol!!! what a guy

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