Higgs announcement

I stayed up until midnight to catch the live video from CERN in Geneva at 9 A.M. their time. It was the conference to reveal the latest data from the LHC and its hunt for the Higgs boson. The presenter started talking and for 35 minutes it was non-stop ultra dense particle physics jargon. I could keep up with it, sort of. About 12:37 A.M.(California time) or so this morning he shows the slide of the experimental data: right where it was expected were hits, so the Higgs exists! Everybody started clapping and such tomfoolery then the lecture continued for a little bit more with additional results. Live blogging from the lecture hall in Geneva by Sean Carroll, professor of theoretical physics at Caltech, follows:

And the “money” plot: