Tevatron confirms a 115-135 GeV Higgs

On the other hand, they're seeing a spike in exactly the same place that the LHC's been seeing a spike. That's good news - it means that there's new physics in there rather than just a measurement error.

Re: Tevatron confirms a 115-135 GeV Higgs

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Post by antoko » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 7:57 PM UTC

AznHisoka wrote: post #3

So does this mean we can travel to the future now? Woot.

We've always been able to travel to the future, in fact we can't help but do that. Pausing time or going back in it is where the problem-space is.

Re: Tevatron confirms a 115-135 GeV Higgs

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Post by johrn » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 9:09 PM UTC

yummybear wrote: post #2

"Confirms" is a little strong for sigma 2.2

It looks like his argument is that somehow combining results from various detectors/measurements ends up with sigma > 3. I don't understand why that would be the case, but he isn't just saying 2.2 == confirmation.

Re: Tevatron confirms a 115-135 GeV Higgs

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Post by robododo » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 9:11 PM UTC

antoko wrote: post #7

AznHisoka wrote: post #3

So does this mean we can travel to the future now? Woot.

We've always been able to travel to the future, in fact we can't help but do that. Pausing time or going back in it is where the problem-space is.

Then explain this. How am I typing this message FROM THE PAST?

Re: Tevatron confirms a 115-135 GeV Higgs

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Post by xpose2000 » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 9:12 PM UTC

It doesn't seem to be fully confirmed yet. There is just much stronger evidence that points to its existence.

Better link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/science/higgs-boson-may-be...