The data pointing at signs of a new particle isn’t good enough to use yet.
Science, scicomm, and scepticism
The data pointing at signs of a new particle isn’t good enough to use yet.
On July 4, 2012, when CERN announced that a particle that looked a lot like the Higgs boson had been spotted, the excitement was palpable. A multibillion-dollar search for an immensely tiny particle had paid off, and results were starting to come in. On March 6, 2013, when CERN announced through a conference in Italy…