On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 07:17:23PM +1100, Damien Broderick wrote:
> Another interesting piece in the same issue declared that the Higgs
> particle is now a non-starter; the search has covered 70% of the likely
> energy regions and the cupboard is bare. The Standard model is falling
> apart. And supersymmetry is worse off, since it needs several Higgsons, one
> of which falls squarely in the energy region that's now been shown to be
> empty.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991649 and
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991663
Hawking recently bet $100 that the Higgs boson doesn't exist
though he apparently is inclined to make unlikely bets:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_468610.html
Meanwhile the Foresight Exchange gives a ~3/4 chance that the
particle will be discovered by 2005:
http://www.ideafutures.com/fx-bin/Claim?claim=Higg
I don't have any idea, but I just sold a few of that claim short.
-- Mike Linksvayer http://gondwanaland.com/ml/
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