Read the comments, too, particularly one by Torbjörn Larsson:
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/higgs-boson-found/#comment-230850

Why Evolution Is True

This is apparently a rumor, but one probably leaked by physicists involved in the project.  As Wired Sciencereports, there are tantalizing hints that the elusive Higgs Boson has finally been found via the Large Hadron Collider at the Franco-Swiss border:

Ever since tantalizing hints of the Higgs turned up in December at the Large Hadron Collider, scientists there have been busily analyzing the results of their energetic particle collisions to further refine their search.

“The bottom line though is now clear: There’s something there which looks like a Higgs is supposed to look,” wrote mathematician Peter Woit on his blog, Not Even Wrong. According to Woit, there are rumors of new data that would be the most compelling evidence yet for the long-sought Higgs.

The possible news has a number of physics bloggers speculating that LHC scientists will announce the discovery of the Higgs during the International Conference on…

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