favicon CERN announces discovery of Higgs boson

  • The Verge Jul 4, 2012, 12:38 am by: Jeff Blagdon102 pts
    The Verge writes, Scientists at CERN say they've found the Higgs boson with 5-sigma certainty — about 1 in 3 million. Evidence of the particle's existence in the 125GeV mass range was gleaned from the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva. The second, ATLAS experiment will be announcing its results later this morning. A second 5-sigma results would imply certainty of about 1 in 9,000,000,000,000. While the world is still far from a complete picture of the universe (see: gravity), the discovery fills a major hole in the Standard Model of particle physics by providing strong evidence for...

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