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Originally Posted by tomkinsr
One of two things will happen shortly after the beam is turned on and the first collision occurs. Higgs Boson will be proven to exist, the experiment, now a complete success will, will be shut down and thousands of scientists, technologists and technicians and support staff will become unemployed.
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That is not the way particle physics works. They must wait until after over a billion collisions occur and they must get predicted results 99.999% of the time. They cannot publish a discovery until that happens. When they get predicted results even 68% of the time they only can list it as a "finding". They are looking for many other things aside from the Higgs.