By Hamish Johnston
Alexander Unzicker wants you to place a bet on the Higgs boson — or more precisely whether it will be discovered at the LHC.
He has set up a site called www.bet-on-the-higgs.com, where he explains how you can bet on the discovery of the Higgs at intrade.com — which is a ‘prediction market’ based in Ireland.
If you are tempted to place a bet, please make sure that doing so is legal where you live.
Here in Dirac House I can’t even look at intrade’s Higgs pages — they are ‘forbidden’ — but Unzicker has posted a screen shot of his intrade account, which I have reproduced below.
Buy low, sell high
Sorry about the fuzziness, but if you squint you can see that he is wagering on the ‘Observation of the Higgs Boson Particle’.
What’s not clear from the screen shot is whether Unzicker — who teaches maths and physics in Munich — is betting for or against the discovery…you’ll have to check his website to find out.
