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On July 04 2012 16:49 Starburst wrote: Can someone please explain all this lol. I really want to understand, but lack the physics knowledge to decipher this code...
Check the twitter link which just got posted, best explainations so far imo.
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In summary, CMS reports: mass of the Higgs boson = 125 +/- 0.6 GeV / c^2 with 4.9 sigma.
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Moar data, moar confidence.
Speshul Fizziks.
No no, thank you sir - good announcement. Now make it in one sentence sound bite for the news guy in the back.
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Well their final conclusion is 4.9, lol. I wonder if it turned out that way by accident.
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On July 04 2012 16:51 kingjames01 wrote: In summary, CMS reports: mass of the Higgs boson = 125 +/- 0.6 GeV / c^2 with 4.9 sigma.
or: ggnoreyo.
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Does this exclude alternative theories that implied the possibility of black holes or strangelets apparition at low enough energies in the LHC ?
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On July 04 2012 16:46 EtherealDeath wrote: On a random tangent, imagine how funny it would be if one day there were a super important thing verified to 5-6+ sigma, and then later it turned out the very slight nonzero chance of error actually occurred. After all, the chances are much lower of me winning the jackpot... but hey it happens o.o In practice, the probability of error is much larger than implied from the 5 sigma. This is due to many error sources not being gaussian, and human factors. (see neutrino 6 sigma signal which turned out to be a loose cable.) With some luck, they will build a linear colldier to study the higgs further, and then they will notice if it's not there.
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ATLAS talk coming now... Here comes the Comic Sans MS font!
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Grad student slavery in action - technical crew!
And now the Atlas results. Extra confirmation? Sweet!
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Moving on to the ATLAS project.
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...why would you use Comic Sans for such a presentation. Just why. :[
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She seems much more relaxed than he was.
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