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Both of the two Higgs-hunting experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have reached a level of certainty worthy of a "discovery".
More work will be needed to be certain that what they see is a Higgs, however.
The CMS team claimed they had seen a "bump" in their data corresponding to a particle weighing in at 125.3 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) - about 133 times heavier than the proton at the heart of every atom.
Indications are strong, but it remains to be seen whether the particle the team reports is in fact the Higgs - those answers will certainly not come on Wednesday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18702455
"weighing in at " .................in the red corner..............
with dual nationality, I also know that CERN has been a worldwide scientific collaboration, albeit mostly paid for by EU taxpayers.
My post was supposed to be tongue in cheek, but I guess it missed the mark. 
Anyway, as I said in another thread, imagine Higgs' emotion on being vindicated 50 years after the fact, no matter what they call that illusive little sucker he predicted!
