The Higgs Boson is back in the news again, here's a Nature News article discussing Cern's latest discovery, which is that
The data contained “a significant excess" of collision events at a mass of around 125 gigaelectronvolts...
Physicists have maintained that they will not announce the discovery of the Higgs until the signal surpasses 5 sigma, meaning that it has just a 0.00006% chance of being wrong. The ATLAS and CMS experiments are each seeing signals between 4.5 and 5 sigma, just a whisker away from a solid discovery claim.This is wrong.
