So did they really find the “Higgs” Boson...
Or, after spending all of this money on this super conducting super collider...
that immediately broke...
did they, cook the books, to fake a “Higgs” ?
The SCSC didn’t break: it was never completed.
I've read two quotes, before this, by physicists who very carefully suggested that the “evidence” for Higgs may not be conclusive.
I was not surprised.
Not because I understand the physics, but because of the way the audience of CERN physicists responded after the Higgs announcement was made.
In spite of the whoops and hugs and high fives, I clearly sensed that much of the “excitement” was forced, and that a lot of the scientists in that room had real doubts about what actually had been discovered.
I also wish the author would have explained in more detail which “superparticles” CERN plans to look for, and why that procedure would be any different than hunting for the Higgs.
Don't we already know that some superparticles exist anyway?
We use positrons in human medicine, and we know experimentally that antiprotons and antiquarks exist.