RE: Are Scientists Still Looking for the Higgs Boson?
July 15, 2017 at 4:51 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2017 at 5:02 pm by Brian37.)
(July 15, 2017 at 3:47 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Based on my reading, the higgs boson is one of those things that has to exist. The Standard Model requires that there be such a thing as a higgs boson. The universe can exist without god, but it can't exist without a higgs boson. But the particle hasn't actually been identified.
Does this mean that besides the fact that higgs bosons are unstable and have no spin, I. the author, am free to invent behaviors for my character Higgy the Boson?
Um I am going to do a google search as soon as I post this, but my understanding for a few years now is that it has been confirmed. I was not aware of current conflicting peer reviews, I thought' the Higgs Boson was confirmed years ago. Not sure this isn't that different than describing the center of a black hole. While we cant physically go into the center, we do have a damned good idea of what goes on.
EDIT,
According to this article YES the Higgs Boson has been confirmed.
https://www.livescience.com/27888-newfou...higgs.html
And this.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brie...WqBI2LyvIU
And this.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1849...l-predicts
And from CERN itself.
https://home.cern/topics/higgs-boson
So I am not sure what controversy you are pointing to or think is there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson