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here's a great video about what's going on at the LHC.

Check it out!

http://io9.com/5905897/the-webcomic-gui ... iggs-boson

Here's another great video about Dark matter.

http://vimeo.com/22956103

from PHDcomics.

good stuff!
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aw....

no love for the LHC?

This is the greatest experiement on the planet. It will give us insight into the foundations of the universe that we have never had!

... sad science is sad.
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johnson1010 wrote:aw....

no love for the LHC?

This is the greatest experiement on the planet. It will give us insight into the foundations of the universe that we have never had!

... sad science is sad.
I thought I had read last week that a new particle was discovered?
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Do you have that link, Ant?

That's awesome!

I know they were hard on the heels of the higgs with a sigma 4 confirmation. I'm winging it here, but i think they need a sigma 7 level of confidence before they confirm its existence.

It is interesting to think of mass as being a kind of charge. I've been trying to really dig into this stuff lately.
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johnson1010 wrote:Do you have that link, Ant?

That's awesome!

I know they were hard on the heels of the higgs with a sigma 4 confirmation. I'm winging it here, but i think they need a sigma 7 level of confidence before they confirm its existence.

It is interesting to think of mass as being a kind of charge. I've been trying to really dig into this stuff lately.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... n-collider
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A never-before-seen subatomic particle has popped into existence inside the world's largest atom smasher, bringing physicists a step closer to unraveling the mystery of how matter is put together in the universe. After crashing particles together about 530 trillion times, scientists working on the CMS experiment at Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) saw unmistakable evidence for a new type of "beauty baryon."
Yes, 530 Trillion collisions (WOW!) yield a new particle, but not The Higgs. Yet.
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Well, not exactly, Landroid.

They see evidence which strongly implies the higgs, but not enough yet to rule out other explanations.

They want to be very confident of their results before publishing and asserting that it is indeed there.

So, they ARE seeing it, but they want to be certain.

http://www.science20.com/quantum_diarie ... gnal-87751
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Thought there would be a little buzz here on BT ... in less than 48 hours, discovery of the Higgs boson particle will be announced in Australia, or maybe not. July 4 is the big day apparently, an auspicious day for Americans for sure. Could be an element of deliberate timing there. If I understand, its a matter of meeting an scientifically acceptable standard of proof .. 5 sigma I think, or a probability of error of one in 3.5 Million.
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Well, as Prof Rolf Heuer, director-general of CERN, in Switzerland, where the experiments were conducted, put it today: "As a layman I would now say I think we have it."

This article on the BBC News website gives a compact explanation of what it is they were looking for, what it is they think they may now have found and what new questions this immediately raises, as any scientific discovery, of course, does:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18702455

One way or another: a tremendously exciting day for our entire species, it would seem...
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Here's the guy from Sixty Symbols discussing the Higgs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjnFDoXS ... Y7Axb-jZew
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