That is true, excitement has always been up since the collisions went fully operational in 2008. The more seasoned Physicists are more skeptical of the initial results, until enough outcomes have been repeated. They refer the measurements as "sigma levels". I will not pretend to know what it means so I quote: "
A sigma level *IS NOT* only a measure of &quot; *<b>how likely we are right</b>* &quot; but *<b><i>that there is an extremely low chance that random luck caused this result AND there is also an unknown and hard to quantify possibility that our theory is wrong and some other mechanism caused this result</i></b>*.&quot;<div>
<br></div><div>Normally, let us say it takes about 10k - 15,000 repetitions from an experiment to conclude that what was observed agrees with theory and therefore qualifies as a formal Scientific discovery. For the LHC they take the number up to several billions to completely wipe out the element of doubt. In short, they want to make sure that the event is more likely to happen than someone retiring from employment or even dying from old age! :) <div>
<br></div><div>Martin. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Kinuthia Ngugi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kinuthia.ngugi@gmail.com" target="_blank">kinuthia.ngugi@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There was excitement about a month or two back when they thought they had gotten the boson, but i think it wasn&#39;t confirmed, the pattern has to be observed severally and consistently for it not to be a fluke....but they&#39;re almost there..<br>

<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Martin Chiteri <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:martin.chiteri@gmail.com" target="_blank">martin.chiteri@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
Video on youtube [ 
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U9VyT5zevc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U9VyT5zevc</a> ] <div><br></div><div>There shall be a special seminar broadcast on the 4th of July, 2012 at [ <a href="http://webcast.web.cern.ch/" target="_blank">http://webcast.web.cern.ch</a> ] </div>


<div><br></div><div>The Higgs&#39; boson explained, Comic strip: [ <a href="http://vimeo.com/41038445" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/41038445</a> ]</div>

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