Hunting for the Higgs

[tehmaninblack]

I had to wipe my glasses there for a second when viewing the thumbnail

"Hunting for the [*]iggs"

What?!

[ClamCrunchy]

This is incredible.

[Throred]

Thank you for this.

[FUCKOFFYOURGAY]

i love cern!

[velgirtas]

Yeah, Tim Greenshaw really is one of the most popular lecturers in the uni of Liverpool :) . The lecturer with exam results, in my opinion, is Uta Klein.

[kcunit333]

maybe the higg particle is god???

[BoardwalkAstronomer]

You guys are outstanding! Really. You are among the best of us.

So if I understand the analogy in this video correctly, does it logically follow that the key to traveling at light speed would be finding a way to repel Higgs particles?

[h3rbaltea]

@BoardwalkAstronomer

That's if the Higgs particles exist.

[Shakespeare1612]

@BoardwalkAstronomer The fundamental particals that make up YOU only stay organized because they interact with Higgs particles according to what this is saying, so to repel them away would be a bad idea. Your head would no longer be attached to your feet, or to itself for that matter. Maybe if you were inside a bubble of regular space-time some how, and you could repell Higgies away from the outer shell of the bubble only.

[Tribefull]

@BoardwalkAstronomer Ha. I thought of that too. The problem is, even if we could generate a "Higgs Deflection Field", which would theoretically allow whatever was contained within the field to appear to the external world as if it were massless, how would you propel it? You can't exert force on something that you cannot interact with. It would only retain whatever momentum it had at the time the field was generated. But, even if we couldn't travel at the speed of light, it sure would be the...

[Tribefull]

@BoardwalkAstronomer ...pinnacle of energy efficiency, since after you accellerated an object you could reduce it's friction to zero no matter what it was traveling through.

[bugsbbunny]

My child will be named Higgs if the particle is found.

[spencertron88]

so don't have a bad attitude. Otherwise higgs bosons won't like you, and you will have no mass, and zoom off into space at the speed of light.

[welove]

I like the way Tara Shears identified herself as an 'unpopular lecturer'... i had her as a prof for my Thermodynamics module this year... she's a little bit evil to be honest...

[adamsfunnyfilms]

We are just like the planets and stars. We tend to gravitate toward the teacher, with the results, as the planets and stars interact with each other. Maybe, it is us that is known as Higgs. Can you see what I mean. It changes everything if no Higgs is found.

[adamsfunnyfilms]

I love it !! yYou guys are good. But...if we don't find what we know of as Higgs...it is more exciting than ever. I guess it changes everything if no Higgs is found. Interesting...

[thedeeliciousplum]

this vid is one wonderful insight into the research that Cern is engaged in. Thank you for sharing this vid.

[Chaos511]

Even if LHC doesn't find Higgs Boson, it can find a hell lot of cool stuff. It could find sparticles, proving supersimmetry.I t could find Gravitons leaking to other dimensions, solving Hierarchy problem AND bringing evidence for M-Theory. It could explain us what the hell Dark Matter/ Energy really is.

It could also cause Scientific breakthroughs outside particle physics/quantum mechanics field, BIG scientific breakthroughs. I'm really really really enthusiastic about it.

[JoachimderZweite]

This scientist is also a babe - beautiful science in a heavenly form.

[SeriousityNow]

It's not that bad if it doesn't exist. You never know it might lead to exiting new innovations.

[mailhoax]

I think that the higgs boson doesn't exsist (opinion) but we need to know. You could give me a thumbs down, but if you do it, you aren't a good scientist. I think that quanum computer or quantum optics deserves more money on investigation than CERN accelerator, maybe the new concepts will help on that... who know. When quantum computer is buildt, owr think method will change.

[FlowersInHisHair]

But we don't know what the LHC experiments (plural - they're not just looking for the Higgs boson) are going to produce. All sorts of cool technological breakthroughs could result from what they're doing there. It's exciting!

[verymaddog]

What a STUPID scam. These people know nothing about basic philosophy and science. Their only concern is to keep the grants coming.

[grok68a]

Thanks God we are continuing to receive money taken from the taxes paid by idiots like you, who understand NOTHING about what really science is, and how the science is the best expression of the human being.

Thanks again for your money !

[TheRationalizer]

@grok68a

he says with the opening words "Thanks God" :D

[royallyflushed]

haha i took an exam she wrote today. Tara ftw!

[coelhealy]

you seem a bit angry, you've posted this same coment on several videos of a similar subject. Everyone has a right to their own opinions. Please do not go around video to video flaming people who don't share the same beliefs or views as you.

Please keep an open mind when reading/watching THEORETICAL material on the internet. After all even "God" would not be as popular as he is today if someone didn't have an Open mind.

[atlastasparename]

I have some questions regarding the "w" and "z" bosons - alleged "mediators" of the "weak nuclear force". Where do these particles live? Inside all atoms? Inside all radioactive atoms? Inside some radioactive atoms? Inside no atoms? Do they pervade all space? Where are they exactly?

[RECShamrock]

The scientists don't know, I believe. I think that's one of the main things they're trying to determine, because the Higgs Boson is totally theoretical at this point.

[ImashaftYotube]

amazing

[bicnarok]

So "there are Higgs particles in every corner of the universe" but "we have never seen or measured one in our experiments" haha. I could make some daft idea up why things work, without proving it as well. Just shows science is fantasy, just like the unproven big bang

[Xearf]

I actually agree, to some extent. I have always felt that modern theories were built up to match the facination that science fiction draws - that's probably for money's sake. Who wants to buy a book or watch a documentary they can't understand? It's a way of getting the public excited.

[JanusChan]

Such things are called 'hypotheses', not facts or fantasy. Hypotheses are there to be tested and that's why the LHC was built. They never said that higgs existed, but it's an idea formed from calculations and facts that we already know. That's why it's to be tested. Things that are known as truths in science were once untested hypotheses like these, based on things already known. You don't seem to know what experimenting really is, so please do not post such a mindless thing.

[xxthehighwaymanxx]

^^ smart man.

[prozrachno]

Imagine if CERN does not find the elusive Higgs particle at the end and it turns out that all mathematics and formulaes really do make no sense at all. May be mathematics have sense only to humans and means nothing to Reality itself. But that again, if we apply the fundamental law of QM that is the Observer principle, we should find it, since so many minds are concentrated on it and wish it to be found.. so Reality will create some Higgs for our satisfaction, lol

[coelhealy]

I've read some articles that state if they do not find the higgs it would be a positive result as it would turn our knowledge of Maths & Science upside down.

Some physists want this to happen as quite many discoveries have been made by things being proven to be incorrect.

[FlowersInHisHair]

Absolutely. Think how cool it will be if the Higgs boson turns out not to exist. Very cool indeed!

[betsycoates]

the higgs boson has dastardly plans

[daltonthe3]

Hunt for the HIGGS!!!

[RatioX]

Extreamly enlightening, I love these videos!

[CousinoMacul]

Fascinating analogy!