RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds?
September 11, 2011 at 8:19 am
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2011 at 8:26 am by little_monkey.)
(September 11, 2011 at 5:53 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Higgs particle could be found by Christmas
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14731690
The title of that article is slightly misleading. The hope is that by Christmas, the Higgs boson will either be ruled in or ruled out.
If it's ruled out, it will be like a tsunami, an earthquake and a hurricane all hitting your house at the same time. It would mean that most of what was done in the last 40 years is up for grabs. And many Physicists will see their reputation on the block, many among them Nobel prize winners. A lot is at stakes, more than what the general public is aware.
(September 10, 2011 at 7:29 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Poop. I was kind of hoping for one last hurrah for the Tevatron before they shut it down....
Me too, but many working there will be out of a job by the end of the year. So that if the research is no longer done in favor of searching for a job, that is understandable.
