Wednesday 11 July 2012

The Higgs boson may not have been found after all


Just last week
The most important physics discovery of the century
Perhaps

Physicists announced the elusive Higgs boson
Had been found
Perhaps
Or a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson
That elusive Higgs boson
Had been found
Perhaps

Physicists weren't using microscopes to view the boson directly
That elusive Higgs boson
They were looking at other particles
Researchers used those
Along with particle physics theory
To claim the discovery
The elusive Higgs boson had been found

But not so fast
The physicists weren't using microscopes
They were looking at other particles
Scientists didn't discover the Higgs boson
That elusive Higgs boson
But instead
Other particles
An imposter
A mix of particles
Perhaps

Without more data
No one can really say for sure
Who's right
The Higgs boson
That elusive Higgs boson
Or