Data from Fermilab's shuttered Tevatron accelerator seems to support the data released by CERN last December. These two different accelerators are both seeing a signal that could be the Higgs Boson in roughly the same place. To quote the New York Times: "It has led to a joke in physics circles now: The Higgs boson has not been discovered yet, but its mass is 125 billion electron volts." (Via dsut in Submitterator)
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11:49 am Wed
Mar 7, 2012
The Higgs Boson has not been discovered (again, in the same place)
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Boost your marketing skills with training on Google Analytics and AdWords
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Save $45 on this wireless charging sonic toothbrush kit
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Boost your productivity with this Microsoft Office boot camp
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