Today, scientists at CERN in Geneva announced their results for their search for the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that, if it exists, is thought to be responsible for giving other particles mass. It's no exaggeration to call it a keystone in quantum mechanics, and finding it for sure will be a huge accomplishment for
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... All the buzz in physics today is around results from CERN. Have they found a hint of a Higgs particle, have they found a hint of no Higgs particle? It is difficult to tell on a very broken-up webcast but, from what I can gather, there may be a hint of something with an energy of 126 GeV (with a level of confidence that doesn't let them claim a discovery yet). Earlier, John Humphreys on the Today programme seemed to suggest that if nothing was found today the whole exercise (ATLAS/CMS) had been
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