Word is that the Higgs is all but...
Category: God Particle
Word is that the Higgs is all but confirmed.
Tomorrow physicists and their enablers at CERN and its Large Hadron Collider will declare with appropriate ceremonial majesty whether a particle beam fracas has blown sputum with flecks that appear to be from the formation and self-destruction of Higgs bosons. It will be a declaration heavily hedged in statistical fuzz. Maybe (gad, shifting metaphors here) it will be clearly probable they've confirmed the beast exists from its footprints and shed fur.
And who in blazes called this thing the god particle in the first place? Oh yeah, the sainted Leon Lederman. Anyway, it's an apt metaphor from mythology. The Higgs is embodiment of a pervasive force...
The last few...
The last few days while I've been mostly off, Boyce Rensberger expertly tracked the run-up, and the face-plant thud of inconclusive actual results, to this week's revelations about the road to the Higgs being paved in the interaction chambers at the Large Hadron Collider. Here's one more, on a topic that perhaps has been covered before but reads fresh to these eyes:
- Reuters - Robert Evans:...
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