If Higgs Boson Calculations Are Right, A 'Bubble' Could End Universe

Re:If Higgs Boson Calculations Are Right, A 'Bubble' Could E... by martinced on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @07:19PM (#5248121)

"Calculations were done, and the possibility of it happening was shown to be one in a million."

"shown"!? "supposed" you mean right!? Or is there one in a million chance of this happening any time a nuclear bomb is/was tested?

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Re:If Higgs Boson Calculations Are Right, A 'Bubble' Could E... by Tuna-Fish on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @07:31PM (#5248171)

That's not quite correct. The calculations disproved it to a certainty of one against a million.

Or, to put it in another way, the data they had clearly showed that it couldn't happen, but taking into account all known sources of errors, there was a one-in-a-million chance that the data they had was the result of random errors.

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Re:If Higgs Boson Calculations Are Right, A 'Bubble' Could E... by Filligree on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @08:27PM (#5248401)

..and a much larger chance that the scientists had made a mistake somewhere in the calculations.

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