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Get ready for the Higgs announcement tomorrow! Discover the excitement around the 4.5σ result and more.

Written byPhil Plait
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Tomorrow is a big fun holiday for United Stateseans, but those foreigners at CERN decided to make a big Higgs announcement at 1:00 a.m. my local time, and I imagine I'll wake up to having to explain what a 4.5σ result is. So until then, I'll just put this here. And yes, that is my pal Felicia Day playing the violin.

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