SocraticGadfly: Hawking bets against ‘God particle’

September 10, 2008

Hawking bets against ‘God particle’

Well, actually, to be more scientific, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is betting against the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, on the Swiss-French border, finding conclusive evidence of the Higgs boson, the primary reason it was built.

We’ll see. Remember, Hawking is a cosmologist, not a particle physicist.

And, he’s certainly right that plenty of other physics discoveries mean the LHC won’t be a “failure,” no matter what.

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