The editor for The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, and Particle Fever, a new doc on the hunt for the Higgs boson, opens up on a long-time passion for reading about science, and a story about 200 horses that explains the Higgs mechanism.
This is slightly more conclusive than last summer, when CERN said it found a particle that resembles the Higgs Boson but couldn't confirm it was.
As physics heads into the Higgs home stretch, it appears the God particle might not have many surprises.
Wait, what? New Higgs boson results? Did you think it was over? Oh hell no. "A post today":http://profmattstrassler.com/2012/11/14/higgs-results-at-kyoto/ from physicist Matt Strassler discussing the newest Higgs findings puts it well, "Knowledge…
Data and statistical analysis is a hard thing to explain to a public not accustomed to it and more used to pop culture imaginings of scientists just finding shit in sudden _eureka!_ moments. Based on a cross-section of interactions over the years, "s…
The hunt for the Higgs boson, god particle or goddamn particle, the one that gives things mass, came closer to an end on July 4. Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the world's largest particle accelerator, found evidence of the par…
Detecting and cross-checking (and cross-checking again) the existence of the Higgs boson is a big undertaking and an important one, so its attention from the press is understandable - laudable, even. But the problem with covering the Higgs boson sear…
Of course _you_ know what the Higgs boson is -- it's the theorized particle that composes the energy field that endows every other particle with mass. It's the particle that makes the universe possible, let's nature construct things, like humans, or
Tomorrow, when the world hears a giant announcement about the Higgs boson from scientists at Europe’s CERN laboratory, they might not notice its American accomplice. On Monday, the Fermi National Laboratory, or Fermilab, which is situated in the midd…
Tomorrow, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is set to announce some of the most highly-anticipated — and poorly-embargoed - findings in recent memory: evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson. Now, we won’t know for sure until…
Hey, did you hear the big news? The Higgs boson has been discovered!!!! Oh wait. No it hasn't. Well, at least not yet. So please, for the love of theorized God particles, please refrain for the time being from shitting bricks and/or popping the bu…
CERN is set to announce the discovery of proof that the Higgs boson “almost certainly” exists, according to the AP. That’s a big freaking deal; it’s been more than 50 years since the God particle was first theorized, and it’s the last piece of the St…
CERN in Geneva published the latest Large Hadron Collider (LHC) research results the other day regarding the elusive Higgs boson, a tiny building block particle that’s never been witnessed but its existence is crucial to quantum theory. It’s so cruci…
CERN researchers announced this morning the barest of hints of the Higgs boson at the Large Collider. It's not a discovery, and anyone that pays any sort of attention to this stuff knew just as well there wasn't going to be a "discovery" announced to…
Last month, CERN reported its latest results at the Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai, India, and "they weren't all that promising":http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/31/7544323-atom-smashing-hype-faces-reality. Instead of confirming a sta…
Researchers at Fermilab's Tevatron particle collider are "talking big":http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2011/03/14/tevatron-experiments-report-new-higgs-search-results/ this week as they prepare to present new measurements narrowing down even…
A mere 3.9 miles in circumference, the Tevatron, in Illinois, is slated to be closed this September, putting the full pressure of human cosmology on LHC's broad shoulders. Dun Dun Duuuuuuuun.
