Kudos to Dave Kaiser for a piece in the London Review of Books, 25Aug issue, called "Short Cuts" on the search for the Higgs boson. Erudite, informative and accessible, it also has a lovely tone of being simultaneously serious and not taking ourselves too seriously: "Higgs hunting is a game of looking for bumps in the night: tiny but otherwise unexplainable deviations in those histograms . . . There will be widespread elation among the world's physicists if-- when? -- decisive evidence of the Higgs bonson accumulates. But as a glass- half filled kind of guy, I would also be excited if no Higgs materialises. Nothing beats the thrill of the hunt." _______________________________________________ Sci-tech-public mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/sci-tech-public
