If the Large Hadron Collider DOESN'T find the Higgs Boson, physics will go back to the drawing board:
http://tinyurl.com/yafhpqc
"a hundred years of scientific theory" and "the Standard Model" will be "undermined" if the LHC fails to confirm the Higgs, resulting in bitterness and infighting among the physics community, according to former Harvard professor Shahriar Afshar.
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