Have we really found the God Particle? CERN physicists say don't believe the hype
The internet is beside itself with rumors that the long-sought Higgs Boson has been found — but a representative from one of the teams searching for the so-called "God Particle" says to chill the frak out. So what's going on here? Are researchers waiting for an international physics conference in July to make their big reveal, or has the rumor mill gone out of control?
In a short news segment on Mornings just heard it was said (i'm pretty sure) that a new particle had been found. Am guessing maybe they could have been talking about this ..
Have we really found the God Particle? CERN physicists say don’t believe the hype
The internet is beside itself with rumors that the long-sought Higgs Boson has been found — but a representative from one of the teams searching for the so-called "God Particle" says to chill the frak out.
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But the latest rumors are that the data being analyzed for ICHEP are turning up 4-sigma signals at ATLAS and CMS. That's still a bit shy of the 5-sigma standard required to announce a bona fide "discovery," but if combined with December's data, it could just be enough.
That's all assuming the blogs are right, however, and according to Fabiola Gianotti (Italian particle physicist and head of the ATLAS experiment), that... may not be the case:
"Please do not believe the blogs," she pleaded in an email to the New York Times. (That's the Times' word, by the way, not ours.) Why would she plead for us not to believe the blogs? There are plenty of conceivable reasons:
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