The Higgs

**DJ Ms. White** · 07-03-12, 05:38 PM

At 1:30AM CST, there will be a CERN/LHC conference available on the web.

Now, why you would you want to watch a web conference about the Higgs? CERN will not say whether or not they have found it, but they are flying Peter Higgs out to Geneva for the event.

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**DJ Ms. White** · 07-04-12, 01:48 AM

Could possibly be the single most important night of my academic and professional career.

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**salty99** · 07-04-12, 02:02 AM

That would be 30 minutes from now? This will be ground-breaking. Lots of excited looks coming from the front row....

**salty99** · 07-04-12, 02:04 AM

LOL "we will see two presentations on search updates for a certain particle....I don't remember the name"

"and one page for the theorists...that's all they deserve"

**DJ Ms. White** · 07-04-12, 02:38 AM

5 sigma!

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**DJ Ms. White** · 07-04-12, 02:56 AM

Ah, only 4.9, but now it's time for Fabiola!

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**salty99** · 07-04-12, 03:00 AM

Though I'm no experimental/theoretical physicist and much of the particle math was way over my head, 4.9 standard deviations looks good if I'm not mistaken

From the presentation, it still sounds like there's a lot more data to be released and studied in the coming weeks.

**DJ Ms. White** · 07-04-12, 03:09 AM

5 means a discovery. < means strong evidence for

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**DJ Ms. White** · 07-04-12, 03:36 AM

Yessssssss! And my advisor told me he knew about the Atlas results for the past week.

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**kawaltd750** · 07-05-12, 06:49 AM

Physics is just a past-time reading for me but the Higgs Boson anouncement was an historic event for me. We may not see another like it in our lifetime..... Now enjoy having to explain it to everyone you know who comes to you now....