The Higgs boson ‘nightmare scenario’
The Higgs boson ‘nightmare scenario’
- July 22, 2012
- An article by Jim Weatherall, logic & philosophy of science assistant professor, is featured in The Boston Globe July 22, 2012
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From The Boston Globe:
On the Fourth of July, physicists at the biggest particle accelerator ever built,
the Large Hadron Collider, announced that they had found a new subatomic particle.
Many believe it to be the long-sought Higgs boson, which accounts for the basic mystery
of why certain other elementary particles have mass. Finding the Higgs boson will
surely result in a well-deserved Nobel prize, perhaps as soon as this year. About
the authoer: James Owen Weatherall is an assistant professor of logic and philosophy
of science at the University of California, Irvine. His book, “The Physics of Wall
Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable,” will be published in January
2013 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
For the full story, please visit http://articles.boston.com/2012-07-22/ideas/32778180_1_new-subatomic-par....
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