CERN finds the Higgs boson?

[Taffy]

Looks like some web tech accidentally posted the video ahead of the announcement today:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomch ... -probably/

I know this will probably get a "meh, so what?" from the vast majority of the population, but I think that what this represents (the continuing improvement of particle physics and our understanding of the structure of our universe) is tremendously exciting, not to mention awe-inspiring. I love this stuff.

[cranky laowai]

Very cool. Thanks for posting that.

If it's the real thing, this discovery might be one of the few positive things about our age that will still be viewed as a milestone hundreds of years from now.

[Nagunae]

I lost a lot of respect for CERN after that supposed faster than light fiasco a while back. "Einstein Was Wrong!" I remember people proclaiming. I recommend that everybody wait a little bit.

[Taffy]

I heard this one yesterday.

The Catholic Church wouldn't let the Higgs boson in, but he said, "Without me you can't have mass!"

[Nagunae]

I guess this was the real thing. Hats off to all the physicists through the years that worked on and theorized about this.