As we all (some of us) away Wednesday’s announcement from CERN about the discovery or non-discovery of the Higgs particle, let’s look at an unrelated achievement: the Higgs particle patent: “Particulate materials”, U.S. patent #5880177, issued to Robert Philip Higgs et al. on March 9, 1999. BONUS: Frank Wilczek talks about the Large Hadron Collider, CERN‘s […]
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Ode Upon a Particle, of Doubt
A poem of sorts, in honor of the announcement that researchers at CERN may have found some evidence that might (and might not) indicate whether or not the hypothetical Higgs particle exists: Last night I saw beneath the stair A particle that wasn’t there. It wasn’t there again today. I wish it would just go […]
The elusive Higgs Bosun
The first reference to the search for the Higgs Bosun appeared in the UK’s daily national newspaper The Times on January 12, 2008, in an article, entitled : ’ “It” is still there – Humanity is hard-wired to explore’ which asked : “Does the Higgs Bosun particle exist? The truth is that we have no […]