In what might be characterized as an unfortunate turn for physics and science everywhere there still seems to be no sign of the elusive
Higgs-boson. The Higgs field, part of the "standard theory" in physics, is a gooey ubiquitous quantum field that gives particles their mass when they pass through it. A Higgs-boson is the particle associated with the Higgs field (as predicted by particle wave duality) so if you find a Higgs boson you've got proof for the Higgs field and thus for particles having mass. However that's exactly what the Electroweak Working Group at
CERN has been trying to discover for the past 5 years with no luck so far. Does this mean the "standard theory" is wrong or just in need of some adjustments? New Scientist has the story in more detail
here.
current science news posted by Greg at 12/05/2001 05:41:00 PM
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