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Originally Posted by White Rabbit
Can you imagine if they find the Higgs the first time the fire her up at full capacity. Were going to have a lot of bored people standing around doing nothing for a long time. lol.
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Bored?? Not for quite a while. After the discovery of the Hobbit was announced we had more film crews around here than Fox studios. Bert was doing several interviews a day and Mike (who was still at UNE at that time) must have been similarly busy. Then they had to do (or arrange for others to do) more research to silence the detractors. Can you imagine the scene at CERN if they announce that they have found the Higgs??
That raises an interesting problem. I knew about the Hobbit 12 months before the public announcement but we were sworn to secrecy because Nature would not publish the paper if there was any advance publicity. So if they find the Higgs and announce it they may have trouble publishing but if they stay mum there will be claims that the LHC is a dud. (They might go to PNAS or Science but I expect they would have similar rules.)