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Large Hadron Collider rival Tevatron 'has found Higgs boson'
Telegraph ^ | June 12th, 2010 | Tom Chivers

Posted on 07/12/2010 4:13:37 PM PDT by TaraP

Rumours are emerging from the rival to the Large Hadron Collider that the Higgs boson, or so-called "God particle", has been found.

Tommaso Dorigo, a physicist at the University of Padua, has said in his blog that there has been talk coming out of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, that the Higgs has been discovered.

The Tevatron, the huge particle accelerator at Fermi - the most powerful in the world after the LHC - is expected to be retired when the CERN accelerator becomes fully operational, but may have struck a final blow before it becomes obsolete.

If one form of the rumour is to be believed - and Prof Dorigo is extremely circumspect about it - then it is a "three-sigma" signature, meaning that there is a statistical likelihood of 99.7 per cent that it is correct. But, of course, that is only if the rumour is to be believed.

In the post, titled "Rumors about a light Higgs", Prof Dorigo said: "It reached my ear, from two different, possibly independent sources, that an experiment at the Tevatron is about to release some evidence of a light Higgs boson signal.

"Some say a three-sigma effect, others do not make explicit claims but talk of a unexpected result."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: batavia; fermi; godparticle; hadroncollider; higgs; higgsboson; stringtheory; tevatron
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To: mathprof

If the significance can be explained in layperson’s terms, I’d sure like to have a go at understanding it.


21 posted on 07/12/2010 4:37:37 PM PDT by lonevoice (I can see November from my house!)
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To: StormEye

http://www.jaynemansfield.com/


22 posted on 07/12/2010 4:38:24 PM PDT by wolfpat (Moderate=Clueless)
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To: Rebelbase
Don’t anger the anti-matter...

Seriously. we barely won the last time.

23 posted on 07/12/2010 4:38:54 PM PDT by Michael Barnes (Call me when the bullets start flying.)
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To: StormEye
Sophia Loren is on the left but who is the blond on the right?

Jayne Mansfield.

They are real and they are spectatular.

24 posted on 07/12/2010 4:40:08 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (Obamunists want to tear down our shining city upon a hill and open a community center in "da hood".)
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To: StormEye

Let me guess. You were born after 1958 or so.


25 posted on 07/12/2010 4:42:29 PM PDT by TaMoDee
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To: sourcery
My, those are some huge atomic knockers!

Higgs boson must be seriesly hugh!

26 posted on 07/12/2010 4:42:44 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Always refer to the Libs' new group as"ONE NATION, UNDER G-D!" That'll drive 'em nuts!)
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To: musicman

Spock would say, “Fascinating.”


27 posted on 07/12/2010 4:45:04 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
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To: Rebelbase
Is this the "G" spot?

I mean GRAVITY = G! Jeez, you people.

28 posted on 07/12/2010 4:45:36 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Always refer to the Libs' new group as"ONE NATION, UNDER G-D!" That'll drive 'em nuts!)
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To: TaraP

Wow! That would be absolutely amazing, if true!!!


29 posted on 07/12/2010 4:46:04 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: TaraP

Incredible.....hope it’s true.


30 posted on 07/12/2010 4:50:57 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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To: mathprof

Or as VPOTUS Bite-Me would say, a Big F***ing Deal.


31 posted on 07/12/2010 5:06:07 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
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To: TaraP
The Tevatron, the huge particle accelerator at Fermi - the most powerful in the world after the LHC - is expected to be retired when the CERN accelerator becomes fully operational, but may have struck a final blow before it becomes obsolete.

D'oh. Stupid irony!

32 posted on 07/12/2010 5:07:40 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: lonevoice
If the significance can be explained in layperson’s terms, I’d sure like to have a go at understanding it.

Wikipedia

The Higgs boson is the only Standard Model particle that has not been observed and is thought to be the mediator of mass. Experimental detection of the Higgs boson would help explain the origin of mass in the universe. The Higgs boson would explain the difference between the massless photon, which mediates electromagnetism, and the massive W and Z bosons, which mediate the weak force. If the Higgs boson exists, it is an integral and pervasive component of the material world

33 posted on 07/12/2010 5:07:57 PM PDT by Upstate NY Guy (Gen 15:16 The iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

And this is important, why?


34 posted on 07/12/2010 5:10:35 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Patton@Bastogne

Elementary particles are a big deal, and the Higgs one has been postulated for some time, but it has been elusive to find. Go here to read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_particle


35 posted on 07/12/2010 5:15:01 PM PDT by mathprof
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To: StormEye
Sophia Loren is on the left but who is the blond on the right?

The one on the right is blonde? *\;-)

(Or are you saying it's a he?)

36 posted on 07/12/2010 5:17:30 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: Physicist

You still around??


37 posted on 07/12/2010 5:18:49 PM PDT by Michael Barnes (Call me when the bullets start flying.)
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To: lonevoice

Thanks. I thought it was Jayne Mansfield but I wasn’t sure.


38 posted on 07/12/2010 5:21:27 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: TaMoDee
"Let me guess. You were born after 1958 or so."

You guessed wrong. Before 1958.

39 posted on 07/12/2010 5:23:16 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: Uncle Miltie

looks like the Flux Capacitor,Does it come with a Delorean?


40 posted on 07/12/2010 5:25:31 PM PDT by ballplayer
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