g.lemaitre said:Seeing as it was so integral to the standard model and since the SM is so remarkably successful, aside from its inability to predict the correct amount of vacuum energy, and seeing as no experiment has proved it wrong, why did Hawking bet against it? It was only a 100 dollars so maybe he was just joking.
Stephen Hawking believed that the Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle," did not exist because it conflicted with his theory of black holes. He argued that if the Higgs boson existed, it would cause black holes to evaporate, which goes against the laws of physics.
No, Hawking's bet was not based on scientific evidence. It was more of a friendly wager between physicists based on their differing theories and interpretations of the universe.
Yes, Hawking eventually changed his stance on the Higgs boson. In 2012, the Large Hadron Collider confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson, and Hawking publicly admitted that he had lost the bet.
The bet between Hawking and Gordon Kane was for $100. Kane was a physicist who believed in the existence of the Higgs boson and challenged Hawking's stance.
No, Hawking's bet did not have any impact on the discovery of the Higgs boson. The researchers at the Large Hadron Collider were not influenced by the bet and continued their experiments to confirm the existence of the Higgs boson.