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The particle-physics rumour mill is going into overdrive as physicists look forward to next week’s meeting of the CERN’s Scientific Policy Committee – which will include Higgs updates from the LHC’s ATLAS and CMS experiments. If various blogs are to be believed – and a trusted source assures us that the claims are credible – the two experiments are closing in on the Higgs boson. This undiscovered particle and its associated field explain how electroweak symmetry broke after the Big Bang and why some fundamental particles are blessed with the property of mass. The latest rumour is that both ATLAS and CMS have evidence that the Higgs mass is about 125 GeV/C2 at confidence levels of 3.5σ and 2.5σ respectively. At 3.5σ, the measurement could be the result of a random fluke just 0.1% of the time whereas at 2.5σ the fluke factor is about 1%. If you are really optimistic, I believe you can add these two results together in quadrature to get an overall result with a significance of 4.3σ. While these might sound like fantastic odds to you and me, particle physicists normally wait until they have a confidence of 5σ or greater before they call it a “discovery”. Anything over 3σ is described as “evidence”.
Originally posted by Atzil321
These new results that will be presented on the 13th dec are from both ATLAS and CMS detectors.
Originally posted by loves a conspiricy
I believe they are taking their time, as this is going to disprove religion It wont end it as i previously wrote, as people will continue to believe a sky fairy created everything, regardless of the scientific evidence provided
They have to go about it the right way so not to annoy too many religious fanaticsedit on 7-12-2011 by loves a conspiricy because: (no reason given)
I believe they are taking their time, as this is going to disprove religion
Originally posted by loves a conspiricy
I believe they are taking their time, as this is going to disprove religion It wont end it as i previously wrote, as people will continue to believe a sky fairy created everything, regardless of the scientific evidence provided
They have to go about it the right way so not to annoy too many religious fanaticsedit on 7-12-2011 by loves a conspiricy because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Razziazoid
Well lets hope it's going to be mindblowing news.
We could use something like that nowadays.
Originally posted by loves a conspiricy
I believe they are taking their time, as this is going to disprove religion It wont end it as i previously wrote, as people will continue to believe a sky fairy created everything, regardless of the scientific evidence provided
They have to go about it the right way so not to annoy too many religious fanaticsedit on 7-12-2011 by loves a conspiricy because: (no reason given)