So the big news from the world of science today is that there is no big news. Just a big "maybe" and that, my friends, is essentially important. Let me explain.
Today, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider announced that — after a year of sorting through their petabytes of data (debris from protons smashed together at tremendous energies) — they had excluded lots possibilities and found a hint of something interesting in their hunt for the particle known as the Higgs boson. But, so far, there is nothing conclusive to report, nothing to write home about, nothing worth a call to the Nobel Prize committee.
To understand why this search is so important we have to step back a few paces and recall something about the Higgs. Marcelo and I have both written on the search for the Higgs before and to quickly understand its importance you have to note two points.
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