So sure, the Higgs “discovery” wasn’t really a discovery. More scientific fact checking, as our friends at MinutePhysics put it. But in the course of explaining all that, the number they dropped on our heads about confirming the existence of the Higgs statistically was mind-blowing: Statistical confirmation for the new particle required 600 million particle collisions—every second—for two years. Holy crap. [YouTube] More »
The Higgs boson discovery is a good excuse to learn a bit (and just a bit) about why it was so damn important in the first place. By now, you’ve probably heard that the Higgs is the final piece of the standard model of physics. But what does that actually mean? More »
So while you were out drinking beer and shooting guns at hamburgers yesterday, science found “the God particle.” But, uh, if you didn’t already know what that was, you were probably too drunk or are too hungover to read anything too in-depth about the new boson. No problem. Here’s part one of the MinutePhysics rundown, for the drunkards, dullards, and otherwise uninformed. [YouTube] More »
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