Have we found the Higgs boson particle? (1)
Almost four years ago now, I did a posting speculating that the discovery of the Higgs boson particle might be imminent. Well, it wasn’t. It has proved even more elusive that scientists thought. But, this Tuesday, there will be a statement on the latest information arising from the search for the particle at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland.
Mathematics – originally from Peter Higgs in 1964 – predicts the existence of the particle which is the last remaining piece of what is called the Standard Model that explains the interaction of all the sub-atomic particles currently known to us.
Never mind, Father Christmas. I want the existence of the Higgs boson particle to be proved. But I suspect that the results announced on Tuesday will not be conclusive.
More information here.