Science & Technology

Physicists cast doubt on Higgs boson find

By T.K. Randall
November 9, 2014

Image: CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Tunnel
Credit: Julian Herzog / CC BY-SA 3.0 (adapted) When physicists at CERN announced that the elusive 'God particle' may have finally been found there was much to celebrate in the scientific community, yet despite a general consensus that the search for the Higgs boson was finally over there are still some who believe that the particle remains elusive.

Now a new study from Denmark has opened up the possibility that the newly discovered particle could be something else entirely."The CERN data is generally taken as evidence that the particle is the Higgs particle," said Mads Toudal Frandsen, an associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark.

"It is true that the Higgs particle can explain the data but there can be other explanations. The current data is not precise enough to determine exactly what the particle is."

The physicists propose that the new particle could be a 'techni-higgs particle', something similar but very different to the Higgs that could belong to a whole other theory of the universe's creation.

Source: Economic Times

Tags: Higgs, God Particle