[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Still not committing to exactly what they found. BBC America science reporter likened the find to solving one side of a Rubik's Cube. I wonder if this announcement has anything to do with funding running out.

[Little Pig]

More likely it’s one-upsmanship. The Tevatron team announced earlier that they had found collision data consistent with the presence of the Higgs Boson. The odds that the LHC team just happened to find data of direct evidence just a few days later are ridiculously high; they’re just doing this so the (much smaller) Tevatron can’t steal their thunder. The Tevatron has been shut down now for a couple of years, and is much less powerful; if a Tevatron is all that’s needed for major discoveries, it kind of makes the cost of the LHC unnecessary.

[knarf]

I heard this on the radio yesterday or the day before.

The guy that was being interviewed said it was like smashing two small things we can't see together and producing an even smaller thing we can't see.

I think they're democrats ...

[John W]

Yes, the headline writers have been somewhat ahead of the story I would say.