Physics

Higgs Live Blogging 3- Fundamental Bits To Decrypt The Seminars

[The first two entries of this live blogging series are available here (part 1) and here (part 2)] ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2012 - 12:28am

Higgs Live Blogging 4- Big Expectations

[The first three entries of this live blogging series are available here (part 1) and here (part 2) and here (part 3)] ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2012 - 1:17am

Live Webcast of the CERN Higgs Announcement

Below is a live streaming webcast from the auditorium at CERN, where they will be revealing the latest news on the Higgs discovery. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 4 2012 - 1:29am

Higgs Live Blogging 5- Draft Quotes For The Guardian Etc.

[The first three entries of this live blogging series are available here (part 1) and here (part 2) and here (part 3) and here (part 4)]. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2012 - 1:43am

Higgs Live Blogging 6- The CMS Seminar

[The first three entries of this live blogging series are available here (part 1) and here (part 2) and here (part 3) and here (part 4) and ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 6 2012 - 4:25pm

It's A Higgs (We're Pretty Sure)

The long and complicated journey to detect the Higgs boson might finally have reached its goal, said experimental physicists at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, near Geneva- and they said it with a telltale bump on a slide. The Higgs bos ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2012 - 2:35am

Physicists Demand LHC Shut Down After Higgs And Higgs Nonsense

The Higgs boson has been discovered last year. There is no news today. It is merely the significance level that is a little higher now, but even a level of so called “five sigma” (don’t worry if you do not understand it, it is arbitrary anyway) does not pr ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 8 2012 - 1:05am

Higgs Live Blogging 7- The ATLAS Seminar

[The previous entries of this live blogging series are available here (part 1), here (part 2), here (part 3),  here (part 4), and ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2012 - 3:41am

Has The Higgs Been Found? If It's A New Particle, It Is Heavy...

At CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest results in the search for the Higgs particle. Both experiments see strong indications for the presence of a new particle in the mass region around 125- ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2012 - 3:52am

Rolf Heuer: "I Think We Have It"!

Rolf is drawing the conclusions. He just asked the audience: "I think we have it. Do you agree?" And a roar of consensus fills the auditorium. The slide says "The observation of a new particle consistent with a Higgs boson". It is a his ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2012 - 6:19pm