They Won't Even Know Why

[Minimalist]

but jesus freaks - and their muslim brethren, are not going to be happy about this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/scienc...TE&ei=5043

After 40 years, more evidence is being reported Wednesday that the end of the biggest manhunt in the history of physics might finally be in sight.

Physicists from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., say they have found a bump in their data that might be the long-sought Higgs boson, a hypothesized particle that is responsible for endowing other elementary particles with mass.

The signal, in data collected over the last several years at Fermilab’s Tevatron accelerator, agrees roughly with results announced last December from two independent experimental groups working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, outside Geneva.

“Based on the current Tevatron data and results compiled through December 2011 by other experiments, this is the strongest hint of the existence of a Higgs boson,” said the report, which will be presented on Wednesday by Wade Fisher of Michigan State University to a physics conference in La Thuile, Italy.

[Nine]

When are they ever happy with science?

[Doubting Thomas]

It's been a long, busy day and I'm tired, so I read the first line of the quote as "the end of the biggest manhunt in the history of psychics might finally be in sight." I thought maybe Sylvia Browne and a few other so-called "clairvoyants" were trying yet again unsuccessfully to find someone who's been missing for a long time.

[Minimalist]

Where's Judge Crater? Or Jimmy Hoffa?

[Doubting Thomas]

Jimmy Hoffa is either has the best seats at Giants Stadium or else is an underwater statue.

[The Grand Nudger]

Early example of the witness relocation program?

[Phil]

Hmm...particles in quantum field theory are well defined ripples in their respective fields but the Higgs is a bump?