Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
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Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
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Re: Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
#2He didn't discover the Higgs, but he formulated it (along with other people) in 1964. Its discovery was not until 2012.
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#3Glad he got to see the confirmation before he went.
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#4Sad to hear, I remember the excitement over the experimental evidence once his particle was detected. I'm always amazed by theoretical predictions that can actually be verified plus it was interrsting to hear about the higgs boson as part of my studies shortly after it was detected. Nowadays it seems many theoretical predications are not even close to being verifiable in the coming years or with the current and planned tech. Unless we are talking about superconductivity at room temperature ofc
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Re: Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
#6He didn't discover the Higgs, but he formulated it (along with other people) in 1964. Its discovery was not until 2012.
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I believe that several citations of your assertions is in order.
Re: Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
#8He didn't discover the Higgs, but he formulated it (along with other people) in 1964. Its discovery was not until 2012.
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The same is true of every other boson, except arguably photons in the classical limit (e.g. you can put a multimeter on an antenna and detect them "non-probabalistically"). The Higgs detection is sound. A quick check of wikipedia says 5.9 sigma. Good enough for me, anyway.
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#9Re: Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
#10He didn't discover the Higgs, but he formulated it (along with other people) in 1964. Its discovery was not until 2012.
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"Probabilistic evidence" != "no evidence".
> The error rate is very high.
Citation needed. More citation needed to show that it's high enough that it invalidates the evidence.