Five Sigmas is a Steep Hill to Climb*

Physicists decided fairly recently that 5 Sigmas (5 standard deviations, or roughly 1 in 1 million.) of certainty are needed to make a "discovery".  Which makes it certain that no matter what the evidence acquired at the Tevatron in past years won't be enough to claim the finding of the particle that gives mass to the Universe.  The Higgs particle will become the sole find of Europe's Supercollider, most likely in early 2013.

But the continued work on past experiments at the Tevatron will soon have an airing of something "interesting".  Which means that they will have probably detected the Higgs last year to within at least 3 Sigmas (possibly 4?), which would have been accepted by Physicists early in the last Century.

I'm calling it a European Conspiracy.  They stole the Higgs!

*None of this will be confirmed by anyone with real knowledge of Physics.  It's the conjecture of a "B" student of the discipline.  I'm a better golfer and writer than I am a Physicist!  But you did learn something about Sigmas.  Now get out for your run!