This story reminds me of Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hare. All that fancy new hardware at CERN, yet the dowdy, old Tevatron might end up nabbing the Higgs first. 8)

I don't think the Higgs exists. The standard model will be shown to be flawed, and string theory as well. Dark matter and dark energy are patches in flawed models. Physicists have become too unimaginative. What we need is a new Einstein to open new avenues of thought.

If you really need something mind boggling (without resorting to illicit drugs) you should turn to particle physics and cosmology. That is where the real intellectual frontier is, this is where the unknown is separated from the known.<br>The boundary with the unknown is challenged precisely at the TeV mass range. <br>Good old Tevatron with his aching magnets could find the Higgs tomorrow or maybe we could wait a century without anything happening, the certainty will come<br>only when looking above and beyond the 1-10 TeV range, that will tell us for sure what is there and if supersymmetry exists; or maybe<br>we will find out that everything is just a mathematical delirium and humankind will spiral into new dark ages.<br>Time for a new poll on the Higgs Boson.<br>