Geeks bearing gifts: Higgs announcement spawns bad-joke day:
PARIS—News about an elusive particle called the Higgs boson sparked a rash of bad jokes on the Internet on Wednesday but probably left many T-shirt sellers with a frown on their face.
After spending decades looking for the boson, which is believed to confer mass, physicists at CERN said they had overwhelming evidence of a new, Higgs-like particle.
The long quest has given birth to a form of contorted humor reserved until now for particle scientists.
But on Wednesday, the gags spread to non-nerds as the public got to grips with the big announcement.
A Higgs boson walks into a church, according to one joke which did the rounds.
"We don't allow Higgs bosons in here!" shouts...
Keep on reading: Geeks bearing gifts: Higgs announcement spawns bad-joke day
PARIS—News about an elusive particle called the Higgs boson sparked a rash of bad jokes on the Internet on Wednesday but probably left many T-shirt sellers with a frown on their face.
After spending decades looking for the boson, which is believed to confer mass, physicists at CERN said they had overwhelming evidence of a new, Higgs-like particle.
The long quest has given birth to a form of contorted humor reserved until now for particle scientists.
But on Wednesday, the gags spread to non-nerds as the public got to grips with the big announcement.
A Higgs boson walks into a church, according to one joke which did the rounds.
"We don't allow Higgs bosons in here!" shouts...
Keep on reading: Geeks bearing gifts: Higgs announcement spawns bad-joke day
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