Cosmic Variance finally got themselves an experimentalist, John Conway of CDF, and he hits the ground running with a nice post about the search for the Higgs boson:
I’ve been looking for the Higgs boson for almost 20 years.
So there I was, on a Saturday morning in December, at CERN as it so happened, when I saw the graph we’d been working towards all year. At first I thought it was some mistake – the hair literally rose up on the back of my neck, and I said: “Holy crap! What’s that?”
This is only part one of the description, and like a good author, he leaves the reader in suspense. It’s a promising start, though.
(Also, I’d like credit for not using a post title like “Who Put the Bump…” Thank you.)