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  • If the Higgs field slows everything down then how come photons move at the speed of light in space? Just a thought.

  • ive been trying to understand the higgs particle for days now... nothing made sense except this video... i wish i had the intelligence to understand formulas and real physics, but this explanation is great for the layman. thank you sooooo much! :)

  • sounds like the higgs field is ying chi and the other force that cancels it out is the yang chi. the ancients knew this thousands of years ago, we're just learning the science behind it.

  • @limbobkebob The aincients didn't know shit. Stop stealing the accomplishments of science for a bunch of philosophers.

  • @limbobkebob But only if what sounds to you is correct. The ancient thought that all clocks are running at the same speed, that time is a flow and light is instantaneous. I don't think the ancient had any knowledge about something like a higgs field. They didn't even know what the sun was. They "knew" not very much. What they have been good at was proposing best uneducated guesses like gods and demons.

  • One of the best videos ever since I have been watching science on youtube

  • Is it possible that it took that first picosecond of the process to "create" the Higgs field???? And what about the origin of the Higgs in M-theory???

  • He used the word discombobulate... haha

  • Ok I saw the end of the video now where he talked about the big bang.. it seems to me that the higgs field is still related to everything else and perhaps at a high enough temperature it will "turn off" a kind of temperature that was only in existence in the first picosecond of the big bang... it doesn't seem that it would already be here, and turn off during the big bang then turn back on it seems it is still part of the big bang..

  • maybe the speed of light is the sped of light because of this higgs field? they say in the big bang things had to move FASTER than the speed of light but thats impossible but maybe if there was no niggs field yet it would be possible?

  • Einstein proved that the ether (ie. the Higgs field) was total nonsense. Mark my words : I'll personaly suck Peter Higgs old wrinkled limp cock if he is ever proven right !

  • so how light moves with speed of light?

  • Because it's technically massless.

  • is this because at the smallest level of nature found, say the Unified Field, there is no time or space?

  • One more thing sorry lol...so mass is just really slowly vibrating energy?

  • if they wew massless at the "big bang" the theory would need to be revised.

  • Even if the Higgs field make sense, now we still have to find out what operate the field. I don't see what's the different between that and the aether. Photon doesn't have mass but get pull by gravity. It just seems to me that our equipment aren't ready to detect something that small. Besides, we all know light have momentum. Yes, that means if you concentrate it enough, it'll hit you like a rock.

  • The Higgs field could not couple to the speed of particles but to their acceleration, because mass is inertia.

  • if all matter originally moved at the speed of light, where did the extra energy go when they slowed down in the higgs field?

  • Einsteins full equation for energy conversion is e^2=(pc)^2+m^2c^4 (or e=pc+mc^2) where pc represents energy through momentum and mc^2 represents energy through rest mass. It's assumed that both parts of the equation cannot be satisfied at the same time (i.e. an object either has energy through momentum or mass). Though it's widely considered that photons do not have mass, if they were made to 'stop' the energy would be converted to rest mass.

  • Though it's widely considered that photons do not have mass, if they were made to 'stop' the energy would be converted to rest mass. <<

    Ye this is important to know that photons do have rest mass.

  • @stevebd1 sweet explanation. Thanks.

  • supposed I can live forever and ever and I have to ability to travel through space. Then I can What is there beyond the expansion created by the bigbang?.

  • Very good books about this topic:

    Schrodingers cat.

    And the sequel: Schrodingers kittens.

  • The Hicks Field does not make sense to me. If it omnipresent, then it would exist beyond the Universe to infinity. It seems like a construct that allows us to preceed without understanding.

  • I don't think you understand what the universe is. Our Universe does not have a limit meaning the HIGGS field can exist to infinity. Our universe simply consists of 4 dimensions, not a physical area of space. As far as I understand anyway. It makes perfect scene.

  • i want to see the whole lecture! someone knows where to find it???

  • cool

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