This Particular God, at Least, Appears to Be Dead at Steven Landsburg
Until today, I had been forgetting to check, but it kept crossing my mind that Frank Tipler had predicted ages ago that his Omega Point theory meant that the Higgs boson should fall within a certainly energy range.
Has the recent LHC announcement indicated he was right? As the post above explains, it appears "no". Mind you, it was written at the start of the year before the announcement, but double checking around it appears that the Higgs has an energy of about 126 GeV, a fair bit less than his initial prediction of around 220. (Although I think somone in comments at the top link says he later had revised it downwards to 190 GeV.)
On the other hand, the current candidate may turn out to be an imposter.
I wonder what Frank say about this.
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