- July 2nd, 2012, 6:30 pm
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Anyone else reading up on this discovery. This is a pretty big deal
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The scientists wait a very long time before they cautiously announce that, yes, we think we've found the Higgs particle, and then I read this in an article on Yahoo! (from LiveScience.com)??
"When generated in a particle collider like the LHC, [a Higgs] boson would be expected to decay into a unique set of lighter particles. It appears that the newfound particle at the LHC decayed in a way that the run-of-the-mill Standard Model Higgs would not have."
Of course, the article goes on to explain that it may be the case that this is one of five different Higgs-like bosons and that it might support a higher-level model of physics, and that we know the Standard model is not right (like Newton's laws aren't exactly right either, just close.)
ETA: Bums!!!
The scientists wait a very long time before they cautiously announce that, yes, we think we've found the Higgs particle, and then I read this in an article on Yahoo! (from LiveScience.com)??
"When generated in a particle collider like the LHC, [a Higgs] boson would be expected to decay into a unique set of lighter particles. It appears that the newfound particle at the LHC decayed in a way that the run-of-the-mill Standard Model Higgs would not have."
Of course, the article goes on to explain that it may be the case that this is one of five different Higgs-like bosons and that it might support a higher-level model of physics, and that we know the Standard model is not right (like Newton's laws aren't exactly right either, just close.)
Last edited by jmdickens on July 6th, 2012, 1:04 am, edited 1 time in total.
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