Physics Community Afire With Rumors of Higgs Boson Discovery

[Sionyn]

One of the biggest debuts in the science world could happen in a matter of weeks: The Higgs boson may finally, really have been discovered.

apparently

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/latest-higgs-rumors

[Time]

The nature of the science is so anticlimactic.  They have to collect mass amounts of data in order to prove the particles of the standard models exist.  Instead of having evidence of the particles in one experiment the particles slowly 'emerge' into discovery through the convergence of statistical data.  YAWWWNNN

[MikeK]

The nature of the science is so anticlimactic.

It's not the nature of science that's anticlimactic, it's the nature of the way the media report on it.  Science is hard work, not a roller coaster ride.  It doesn't fit well into the 15-second attention span, so we wind up with silly, repetitive articles.

I like the first comment from that article:
"The next article on the Higgs Boson had better be the discovery of the Higgs Boson"