Final Analysis Suggests Tevatron Saw Hint of the Higgs Boson 184
ananyo writes with exciting news from the world of particle physics: "A hint of the Higgs boson, the missing piece in the standard model of particle physics, has been found in data collected by the Tevatron, the now-shuttered U.S. particle collider at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. While not statistically significant enough in themselves to count as a 'discovery', the indications announced on 7 March at the Moriond conference in La Thuile, Italy, are consistent with 2011 reports of a possible standard model Higgs particle with a mass of around 125 GeV from experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. The data is more direct evidence of the Higgs than the constraints on its mass offered by the precise W boson mass measurement reported on Monday. On a sad note, the find vindicates Tevatron scientists who campaigned unsuccessfully to extend the collider's run. The request was turned down by the Department of Energy but this last hurrah suggests that Tevatron might indeed have found the Higgs ahead of CERN's Large Hadron Collider if they'd secured the funding required. The Tevatron is currently being raided for parts."
You americans trying to take the glory again? (Score:0, Funny)
/me runs and hides.
I LOVE the Tevatron (Score:4, Funny)
It's my favorite ride at the fair!
Urh Urh Urh! (Score:5, Funny)
The Tevatron is currently being raided for parts
Now I have an image of it being pulled apart by a gang of Sandpeople
Re:What is a Higgs Bosom worth? (Score:5, Funny)
A Higgs Bosom ? ... now thats gotta be a worth a look!
Bosom [google.co.uk]
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Re:50 years ago... (Score:5, Funny)
If we had just lowered all taxes to zero and cut all job-killing regulations, we would have colonized the solar system 50 years ago instead of just putting a man in space.
If we had just lowered all taxes to zero and cut all job-killing regulations, we would have pwned particle physics so hard it would be taught to 4th graders today in private religious schools the way God intended.
If we had just lowered all taxes to zero and cut all job-killing regulations, you would be able to buy a spacecraft at your local Ford dealership in any of 40 different models, 5 different trim levels, and hundreds of different colors.
If we had just lowered all taxes to zero and cut all job-killing regulations, no one would care about Mach 3.35 except the hippies that own Prii today. Everyone else would be getting on with their lives commuting between the Earth and Mars in their Ford spacecraft at a quarter of the speed of light.
PS... NASA still has operating SR-71's, so we technically still have a plane capable of traveling at Mach 3.35. And, God only knows what the slow, Government-teat-sucking, mouth-breathing engineers have been able to cook up in the past 50 years. Maybe they have us up to Mach 4 now.
Re:sign of the times (Score:4, Funny)
Oh yeah. It's amazing how much stuff they find when their funding is up for review. Surely that is just a coincidence....
"So, wtf do we do now that funding's been cut and the thing's being mothballed or cannibalized?"
"Uh, how's about we analyze the data it collected?"
"Brillant [sic]! Smoley hokes, would you look at that? A freakin' Higgs boson!?!"
Re:You americans trying to take the glory again? (Score:2, Funny)