Physics Gossip Overload: The Higgs

finally, the people over at fermilab are telling the rest of the world to CALM DOWN and wait for official results from the D0 collaboration to be released before gossiping their mouths off about a potential sighting of the higgs. sounds like good advice to me. as sagan said, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." read this article from wired. (image credit: abc news. for the record, i'm not buying into the whole "god particle" terminology. but the picture is quite cool.)