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Offline Clive

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Higgs!
« on: July 04, 2012, 17:19 »
Scientists using the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva have announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle to very high confidence that is consistent with what we expect the Higgs particle to look like.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/04/higgs/
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Re: Higgs!
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2012, 22:11 »
I had so many questions on this last week at the royal society.
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Re: Higgs!
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2012, 14:13 »
Glad it went well for you Sam! 
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Re: Higgs!
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2012, 23:27 »
I had to explain what 4.9 and 5.0 sigma meant and why that slight difference was so important
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Re: Higgs!
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2012, 15:22 »
It's the difference that is so important.   ;D
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