From Thomas Barratt
The story about another hint of the elusive Higgs boson amounting to nothing (7 May, p 6) set me thinking. As a 16-year-old physics student, I find myself enraptured every time its tentative discovery is reported. Most times, I am disappointed.
However, the longer the Higgs remains elusive, the greater my hope grows that we, in fact, never discover it, effectively forcing physicists to rewrite the standard model from scratch.
Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK
