Today’s physics news: Science in 2011 – Triumphs, disasters and climaxes – in pictures and Higgs boson: The need for new physics

Daily news — By Lena on December 19, 2011 at 10:54 am

Science in 2011: Triumphs, disasters and climaxes – in pictures
There were extraterrestrial shenanigans, female orgasms, Fukushima, the space shuttle and the Higgs. Relive the defining scientific stories of the past 12 months
Guardian

Higgs boson: The need for new physics
Regardless of whether the Higgs detection is confirmed, the standard model is incomplete, says John Ellis.
Nature

Tags: Higgs boson, science 2011

1 Comment

antonio carlos motta says:

December 20, 2011 at 1:54 pm

if really the higgsbosons were not confirmed,will create a loophole in the standard model
i believe that SM is not complete,because the stronger violations CP apear to be broken.the invariance of lorentz could to appear due the right-left handed exchange for rotational invariance to be violated.