Ladies and Gentlemen, the Higgs Boson has been found!

I know that I should probably not be doing this but I am too excited not to: I have it on very good authority from a prominent experimental physicist in the middle of the action that CERN will indeed be announcing the discovery of the Higgs Boson tomorrow in Geneva. Here is how my [..] contact puts it: “It’s 5 sigma more or less, and I am sure there will be some debate about the semantics of calling it a “discovery” or not but more or less it is a discovery…it’s there! Probably the most boring and exciting moment in physics…”

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July 04, 2012