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oops .. Hawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery

AFPAFP – 10 hrs ago

FILE - In this March 30, 2010 file photo a scientist looks at the pictures of the first collisions at full
power at the CMS experience control room at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN)
in... [can't copy, see 1-12] .. http://news.yahoo.com/photos/the-god-particle-mystery-slideshow/

Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking said Wednesday the Nobel Prize
should be given to Peter Higgs, the man who gave his name to the Higgs boson particle.

Former Cambridge University professor Hawking also joked that the discovery had actually cost him $100 in a bet.

In an interview with the BBC Wednesday, Hawking, who has motor neurone disease, said: "This is an important result and should earn Peter Higgs the Nobel Prize.

"But it is a pity in a way because the great advances in physics have come from experiments that gave results we didn't expect.

"For this reason I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found. It seems I have just lost $100."

After half a century of research, physicists announced at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Wednesday they had found a new sub-atomic particle consistent with the elusive Higgs boson which is believed to confer mass.

Hawking said the discovery was of major importance.

"If the decay and other interactions of this particle are as we expect, it will be strong evidence for the so-called standard model of particle physics, the theory that expains all our experiments so far," Hawking said.

http://news.yahoo.com/hawking-says-lost-100-bet-over-higgs-discovery-151710271.html

Why has Hawking lost his bet if the "God Particle' has not been confirmed? .. either the particle article in this one ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=77215147 .. is not spot on, or the situation is
close enough for Hawking to concede defeat .. lol lesson learned .. search more before jumping in .. check!

.. actually according to that one, he said, "It seems..." .. so it seems he has not conceded, yet .. lol .. good ..