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Rumors of Higgs Rumors

Maxx

Got the hang of it, here
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the ATLAS at the LHC at CERN might have seen a Higgs last year.
Confusing. But it still looks like the Standard Model will
need some kind of supersymmetric correction:


Just the ATLAS:
http://atlas.ch/

Just some skepticism:

http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/did_atlas_just_see_higgs-78316

The Rumors:

http://www.itwire.com/science-news/energy/46740-did-atlas-shrug-has-the-higgs-boson-been-spotted

Not even wrong (the original rumor event) (to quote Pauli ):

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
 

Hallen

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Exciting times. :)
I have no clue on the technical side, but I still find this kind of thing thrilling.