Adrian Cho Science Magazine. Librarians Authors Referees Media Students. The American Physical Society APS is a non-profit membership organization working to advance the knowledge of physics. Bulletin Home My Scheduler. On July 4, experimenters at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, held a special seminar in which they reported that they had at last discovered something resembling the Higgs boson, the last missing piece in particle physicists' standard model.
The event drew more than journalists, including myself, and the days leading up to the seminar evolved in almost a caricature of a media circus. Rumors coursed across the internet, bloggers prognosticated about what would be reported, anonymous sources whispered confidence levels to eager reporters, and on the very eve of the seminar CERN's own press office inadvertently leaked a video explaining many of the details. At a post-seminar press conference, dozens of photographers and videographers swarmed Peter Higgs, the eponymous theorist from the University of Edinburgh.
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By Dave Pruett. The Disappointing Higgs and Sterile Neutrinos. So far, the Higgs boson has been a disappointment. Of course, it was a major discovery that generated worldwide attention. By Victor Stenger. Peter Higgs had published the paper that was to bind him forever to the particle that bears his name in , and had waited nearly fifty years for some kind of vindication.
It will be nice after all this time to be proved right. By Jim Baggott. Jimmy Kimmel Trolls Rep. Did God Discover the God Particle? Where did mind come from?
By Deepak Chopra. Are You Crazy? In the wee hours of July 4, at 3 a. New York time, the world heard two presentations from CERN about the status of the search for the so far elusive Higgs boson. By Michael Tuts.
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