Fortunately, this new table-top Higgs discovery was not very expensive. Anything... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		chasil on June 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nig... Fortunately, this new table-top Higgs discovery was not very expensive. Anything requiring the resources of the LHC or more will be far from spontaneous. https://www.livescience.com/magnetic-higgs-relative-discover...

roywiggins on June 15, 2022 [–]

The reporting on that one was pretty terrible.

They discovered a quasi-particle, a behavior of some bulk matter that behaves like a Higgs. Not the same thing at all as the LHC's Higgs discovery.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact