Wired has an article on a group of Physicists at NYU that attempted to find the Higgs Boson in old data ahead of the LHC results:
The key to their strategy was a particle collider that had been dismantled in 2001 to make room for the more powerful LHC. For $10,000 in computer time, they would attempt to show that the Large Electron-Positron collider had been making dozens of Higgs bosons without anybody noticing.
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If Cranmer’s little team had found the Higgs boson before the multi-billion-dollar LHC and unseated the Standard Model, if the count had been 32 instead of 2, their story would have been front-page news. Instead, it was a typical success for the scientific method: A theory was carefully developed, rigorously tested, and found to be false.
It's an interesting story from a rarely covered side of scientific research.
Originally spotted at The physics week in review.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 26 2015, @01:19AM
..instead of Moet & Chandon in the Rainbow Room at the top of the Rock.
Other than that, no difference.
(Score: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Monday January 26 2015, @08:25AM
I didn't find the Higgs boson either, but no-one wants to write an article about me :(
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Monday January 26 2015, @11:13AM
Were you even looking? At least they tried, what did you do?
(Score: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Monday January 26 2015, @01:27PM
I checked behind the fridge.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 3, Funny) by WizardFusion on Monday January 26 2015, @02:00PM
Happy now? :)
(Score: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Monday January 26 2015, @03:02PM
Recognition at last! Now I can finally get the funding I need to embark on an expedition down the back of the sofa.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 3, Funny) by nightsky30 on Monday January 26 2015, @04:49PM
Be careful of stale chips. Those things are sharp and hurt like a bitch!