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mk  ·  4576 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Watch a Livestream of the Higgs Boson Announcement Tonight
Pretty sure that I am going to lose this bet, but I am still betting against them finding it.




ecib  ·  4576 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Well, you called it 338 days ago: http://hubski.com/pub?id=2542

Now we will see if you have to buy yourself a beer. Or maybe we won't. Inconclusive is not the fun answer, but it is often the correct one...

mk  ·  4576 days ago  ·  link  ·  
:) I'm not out of it yet!
thenewgreen  ·  4576 days ago  ·  link  ·  
They accidentally leaked their announcement video on the CERN website. Re: "speaking on the video, Incandela stopped short of claiming the particle was the Higgs boson, saying more work was needed to be sure. "We have quite strong evidence that there's something there. It's properties are still going to take us a little bit of time," he said.

Doesn't sound very definitive to me.

mk  ·  4576 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Thanks. I missed you post.

So they have a big boson, but they are stopping short of calling it the Higgs. I would love to know the details.

khaaan  ·  4575 days ago  ·  link  ·  
they found something that looks and behave the way it is predicted they like true scientists want to be absolutely sure before they make the claim
thenewgreen  ·  4575 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I admire the way they need absolute certainty. Not many other fields act this way. I also think it's cool that they certainly found something exciting.
ecib  ·  4575 days ago  ·  link  ·  
khaaan  ·  4575 days ago  ·  link  ·  
they found it
mk  ·  4575 days ago  ·  link  ·  
It does sound inevitable, and that it is now just a matter of meeting an arbitrary statistical significance of 5σ. The chances of further data reversing the trend are next to 0.

I feel like such a fermion.

khaaan  ·  4575 days ago  ·  link  ·  
it feels like some big scientific advancement is due something that may lead to something like clean free energy but we can only dream