Colliders race for the Higgs

摘要

Soon after the news emerged on 29 March that a magnet test in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) atom-smasher had failed, two physics bloggers decided to have a bit of fun with the idea. On 1 April they posted blogs announcing news such as 'Three years of delay for LHC start-up. Visitors found the reports all too easy to swallow, decrying it as a cruel blow. Only then did one blogger add an April Fool's spoiler, with an apology: "Sorry to those of you who got hurt by not understanding that in the first place."