Hearing a rumour that both independent experiments are now at 4 standard deviations. Together it may mean that they are now at the magic 5 sigma. Any thoughts, gossip etc?
Hearing a rumour that both independent experiments are now at 4 standard deviations. Together it may mean that they are now at the magic 5 sigma. Any thoughts, gossip etc?
I have heard similar from a friend of a boyfriend of the daughter of a scientist at CERN. Big press conference announcement next Wednesday (additional aspects of the rumour being that this announcement will be made at conference in Australia)
I'll explain about the Higgs in seperate post, maybe in coffee house, since more people post there.
For now I'll say that what I've heard is the CERN have definitely found a boson with the same properties as the Higgs in the same type of reactions (photon interactions) where you expect to find the Higgs.
This boson has been found with 99.99995% confidence. In the next few months they will need to check if it is indeed the Higgs (by looking at other reactions) or a new and completely different boson that happens to look like it in photon interactions.
God particle is 'found': Scientists at Cern expected to announce on Wednesday Higgs boson particle has been discovered
Scientists 'will say they are 99.99% certain' the particle has been found Leading physicists have been invited to event - sparking speculation that Higgs boson particle has been found 'God Particle' gives particles that make up atoms their mass
A new Higgs-like particle has been found with over five sigma confidence at the Compact Muon Solenoid in CERN. At 8:38 a.m. today the announcement was made.
After years of creationist research, the Almighty God has blessed his faithful with the discovery of the Higgs Boson. This is the single most important discovery of mankind since creation. Once again, science has been proven dead wrong and that creationism is the one true path to understanding God's wonderous creation.
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