Stephen Hawking

The Large Hadron Collider (and particle physics generally) will not find the Higgs boson.

“I have a bet of $100 that we won’t find the Higgs”

Said on

9 September 2008 · BBC radio interview on the eve of the LHC switch-on, reported by AFP; bet originally struck with Gordon Kane around 2000-2002.

Source

Hawking bets megamachine won't find 'God's particle' · Mail & Guardian (AFP)

Should come true

No date given

How sure they sounded

I have a bet of $100

Categories

Technology

Importance

3 of 5 · The Higgs was the last missing piece of the Standard Model; its absence would have overturned a central theory of physics.

Outcome

Inaccurate Happened 4 July 2012.

No window stated; inferred window is the LHC's search programme. CERN's ATLAS and CMS announced the discovery of the Higgs boson on 4 July 2012, and Hawking publicly conceded he had lost the $100 bet to Gordon Kane.

Evidence:

• https://m.phys.org/news/2012-07-hawking-lost-higgs-discovery.html
• https://www.npr.org/transcripts/156447871