Articles tagged "higgs boson"

The Higgs Boson Might Not Be as Weird as We Hoped

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…

The Higgs Boson Interpreted as Cuban Dance Music

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…

Motherboard TV: A Death on the Frontier

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…

For Chrissakes, Stop Calling It 'God Particle'

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…

Hipster Pop Quiz: What is the Higgs Boson?

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

Motherboard TV: Inside the Large Hadron Collider

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…

Do I Detect a Hint of Higgs Boson in This Universe?

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…

Fermilab Closes In On the Higgs Boson

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…