Higgs Boson (extended interview footage)

[mceyekon]

As most things in QED, this bosom is counterintuitive: particles need another particle to gain mass so that they can interract with eachother gravitationally. Well, the photon's mass is zero and it still interract with gravity: gravitational lensing! Could someone explain this appearent paradox?

[CircadianR]

So if everything was massless, does that mean things like protons had no mass, or that they didn't exist yet?

[BIGWUNuvDbunch]

@CircadianR the quarks had no mass

[CircadianR]

@BIGWUNuvDbunch Ok then, that was kind of my question. Did the particles which now have mass not exist then (as only the massless ones would). But I understand little better now, the Higgs boson/mechanism didn't invent massive particles it gave the existing ones mass. I didn't understand!

[sfsoma]

Brady has learned to ask the most brill questions 35:11

[sfsoma]

oops, 35:44

[sfsoma]

Brady has learned to ask the most brill questions  35:11

[toobeetoobeetoo]

I don't know how I missed this vid the first time around. I gotta say, I am getting a new appreciation for the difficult job Brady and the absolutely brilliant minds do when making these. I feel really blessed to be able to hear their input and interpretations of the subject matter at hand. One last observation: Brady, you are making videos of great historical significance here. How does that feel?

[1337x1337x]

My Social Studies teacher: Ask me a question. Any question. I'm like an encyclopedia. I'll bet you I know the answer to it.

Me: The mass of the Higgs Boson.

She didn't answer me.

:truestory:

[Hobypyrocom]

if we think that the particles are made of pure energy and the mass as a distortion of that energy than everything would be more simple than looking for ghosts.

[mceyekon]

@Hobypyrocom

Yeah, in a sense i'd go with it: string theory would be brilliant. Problem is...not yet testable, therefore, not science (it requires 11 dimensions which you could not yet find a way of proving them).

[dftuikm]

If the Higgs boson is fundamental missing part, it must explain Dark Matter without experiment, just theoretically. If Higgs boson does not explain Dark Matter theoretically, there is no need to hunt it.

[dftuikm]

Contradictive IDOLUM !

Listen carefully !

Total diversion from reality and real physics !

Partricle physicists are hunting a neutrinos and Higgs bosons, using most expensive and energetic devices, to "complete" their theories, which violate fundamental physical facts.

Funy and sad.

[otakucode]

As for the value of this research... CERNs research produced the world wide web. It's why touchscreens work and are everywhere now. Research is ALWAYS worth more than it costs. Even when research seems irrelevant to your daily life, the improved insight it affords to intellectuals is the only way in which society advances.

[otakucode]

I think it is good for people to realize that these things are not fundamentally difficult to understand. They are difficult to understand only because our society does not have the type of knowledge needed to comprehend it circulating widely. The more advanced ideas we circulate in general society, the more of the world is understandable. Tending to nonspecific explanations makes it impossible for people of that society to understand many things.

[ExperienceCounts2]

After watching all the Sixty Symbols videos (and DeepSky etc) and seeing the talent/enthusiasm/knowledge of the profs there I'm spending my free time trying to figure out how to con Nottingham into accepting a fat balding middle aged uneducated Yank into their science program.

If nothing else I'm going to apply for a janitorial position just so I can hang out in the general vicinity of folks who can articulate the science so clearly.

Any chance someone at Nottingham wants to adopt me? :p

[cptorangutang2]

@ExperienceCounts2 good luck with that buddy :P

[sfsoma]

@ExperienceCounts2 I've had the same thought.

[JamesMulvale]

Gosh, Harold from Neighbours is actually really smart!

[TheCaphits]

Hold on. We are about to go non-zero!

[madjimms]

Now where's my hover car >_>

[petertrast]

Brilliant! Best explanation of Higgs I have heard to date, between the different professors.

[petertrast]

Is it remotely possible that the 21 grams of weight that some claim to be lost at death is related to Higgs and the gift of mass being reduced slightly? And how many more collisions before Higgs is abandoned and the Standard Model dies? We already know that E may not equal MC squared now that neutrinos appear to be faster than light. How might these be related?

[anonymousbl00dlust]

Okay, so what exactly is the Mexican hat supposed to be? Is it supposed to represent potential energy vs kinetic energy? Is it the particle's wavefunction? Is it part of some crazy group theory thing?

[dojokonojo]

It must be that every Higgs particle physicist own a Mexican hat isn't it.

[11000010101]

Around @18:20 i was waiting for the timer to reach 1:00:00 and then the clip cut in precisely the last moment >.< Anyways, great vid, thanks for not keeping all this extra footage from us! =)

[sfsoma]

Professor Bowley is quite enjoyable. 

[AlohaBay]

@sfsoma I second that

[lejink]

you ask great questions brady

[ModernGameChangers]

The best way I have heard it described was the Higgs Field is like a tank of water, and the Higgs Bosons are the molecules of water. Depending on the particle moving through said tank of water depends on how much it interacts with the field. I fish interects very little so it has a low mass, and a fat man interacts heavily with the water so he has a large mass.

[alanna4858]

So, am i thinking about this right - if we think about the universe as a massive CAKE - then the particles are like the water/egg, moving around freely and the Higgs Boson is the flour which binds everything up and gives it mass and hold it all together. Is that right?

THANKS guys for giving your time to do these videos. I love them. Big fan.

[WoodsyDotOrg]

Had to find it... google "Higgs Boson: One page explanation"

[Krokonil]

@Brady,

A question, please, if it is possible ask some of the scientist at Nottingham.

We know that all things with mass get more massive as they increase their speed and as close to the speed of light they get their mass incises more and more. That's why things with mass cannot move at the speed of light – their masses will become infinite.

How this can be explained in the Higgs field? Is it moving faster means stronger interactions with the Higgs field and acquiring more and more mass?

[chrisofnottingham]

@Krokonil I'm not a scientist but I think that the increase in mass at relativistic speeds is just a consequence of regular time and space dilation in Relativity, regardless of the mechanism that actually makes the mass.

[AlohaBay]

@chrisofnottingham Well these fine gentlemen propose the mechanism is the higgs.

[chrisofnottingham]

@AlohaBay The Higgs causes time-space dilation???

[Meb8Rappa]

Who wrote the equations in the background, and what do they mean?

[TonyMach01]

And it wasn't the internet that was invented at the CERN (the internet originated from DARPA), but it was the "world wide web" "hyper-text transfer-protocol" "html" part that came from CERN.

YouTube won't let me post the acronyms for world wide web and hyper-text transfer protocol :-(

[TonyMach01]

It is my impression that Tony Padilla speaks very excellent Japanese – alas, I wish I would understand Japanese…

[TonyMach01]

Now Roger Bowley is a true scientist! I have the deepest respect for people who clearly say what they do NOT understand completely. Such a nice contrast to the storytelling braggarts that populate the media.

[danielbluesmoke]

Why do I have the feeling that the second law of thermodynamics has to do with broken symmetry? In my understanding, this is the underlying factor that powers the entropy... I don't know if I'm blabbing or if I really got some understanding of this... But what powers the entropy? And why is it there in the first place?

PS: Please don't be hard on me if I got it wrong!

[culwin]

I think this video broke my brain

[SonOfNye]

Also, Brady, do you think I could get you to write me a letter of recommendation for when I apply for graduate school at the university.

[SonOfNye]

This may be asking a bit much, but I for one would love to see piece looking at the higgs that gets into the core mathematics of. I recognize that the video risks a healthy chunk of viewers putting it off, but I think us maths savvy viewers would get a lot out of it, Thank you for the great work Brady and friends. We all appreciate it.

[BeanTVYWG]

All of these fellows are brilliant, engaging speakers. I've never watched a 49 minute video on YouTube before, and not only did I do that, but I enjoyed every second of it!

[Pleiione]

Excelent video, got my full attention for 50 minutes! Great questions asked and great answers given. Tkank you! I wish I have professors like that to teach me

[frazzzer8888]

What's the deal with that timer in the middle of the screen?

[insomniac1893]

@frazzzer8888 It's to show if he has skipped over something, sort of like a timeline. So basically if it goes from 40 to 50 then he has skipped over 10 minutes of useless footage. It's a little annoying, I wish it was a little smaller and in a corner! =P

[ryanisflyboy]

@insomniac1893 It is a visual reference of the SMPTE time code. It shows (from the right) frames, seconds, minutes, hours. This looks like 24 frames per second (watch the frames counter as the seconds tick by). Since this is raw footage it has been included, partly to show time sequence changes and partly because it is easy and fast for the producer to export it that way. There are several important uses for time code such as cataloging footage and syncing edits.

[iasedu]

Brady, please do an interview with Bowley on his work with super-fluids through and capillary tubes!

[8nwidth]

Prof.Copeland is always on the beat like in his Police Days! :)

[chrisofnottingham]

If it wasn't for the bits with the hat I would be thinking that I had a vague grasp of it. Despite my inability to really get it, absolutely fascinating stuff.

[khufu23]

Was Prof Bowley getting a bit grumpy when trying to explain the Higgs mechanism?

[MrOldprof]

@khufu23 I try not to do grumpy in videos, but I feel ignorant about particle physics (even though I have given a course of lectures on it), and I wanted to do justice to Phil Anderson, one of the greatest physicists of our time, or at least mine. Also I am getting old (at the same rate as everyone else) and I wanted to do a 60 symbols video really well --- Brady has been making me do videos on numberphile which is perhaps more my intellectual level. See the latest one on 15 =bumfit.

[khufu23]

@MrOldprof

I can understand your frustration. Being hopeless at maths myself I know that the secrets of the quantum world will forever be hidden from me.and that any understanding I have will only be very limited and inaccurate.

[LiiMuRi]

What I find especially amazing is how good questions you ask, Brady! It's a talent of it's own to know what to ask.

[Spurdelspardel]

31536000 seconds in a year give 6307200000000000 collisions (6,307 * 10^15 or six quadrillion,

three hundred seven trillion,

two hundred billion)

Statistically higgs appears in one out of 2,102,400,000,000,000 collisions (2,1024 * 10^15 or two quadrillion,

one hundred two trillion,

four hundred billion). It is 3,30*10^12 times less than the number of atoms in your 70kg body and 358000 times less than the number of all the sand grains in the world

[evilsinzy]

@Spurdelspardel

i've been counting sand grains, you better be telling the truth.

[Tasproductions]

This was a brilliant video and really helped my understanding on what the Higgs actually is, and does. Much more so than the edited down version.

[ToxicBassUK]

Awesome.

[clayphish]

The OCD in me wishes this video was an even 50 minutes. Its just not long enough at 49:38

[tmafkap]

@clayphish You are in the Order of the Discalced Carmelites?

[jacksawild]

Next time politicians ask for a metaphor which even they can understand there will be no need to stroke egos by talking about Mrs. Thatcher swanning through a room of idolising idiots. Just point them to the length of this video and they will intuitively understand that this shit is important. Then give them a bun and pat their heads.

[boldger13]

Like if you watched the whole video non-stop because it was very interesting!

I did! Like

[SuperLaugh20]

watch this in one go, chalenge accepted.

[HigherPlanes]

what came first, the higgs or gravity?

[kufpipa]

Great video!

[Nelob00b]

I could listen to Ed speak for hours. He speaks about things in such a clear way that even if you do not understand the terms, you understand the meaning. Also the way Roger just kind of rants about how difficult it all is to even begin to explain the Higgs is sobering!

[dblitroot]

I think I didn't blink for 50 minutes

[Alfalotter]

@dblitroot same lol

[KamiKagutsuchi]

22:20 lol

[LongbeardYT]

Happy Higgsmass!

[slonamu]

Good God! 50 min of time code... I can not stand that - too bad for me - I am sure I am missing some excellent talk... Maybe I will just listen to the video...

[AntiProtonBoy]

Quality episode.

[prezoftheworld]

My brain thanks you, good sir!

[teavea10]

That was a massive video. Very good questions from Brady. Stuff like this boggles my mind. It seems like ultimate small scale reality is composed of a bunch of abstract mathematical entities interacting in abstract mathematical ways. It seems that "having substance" fades away at such scales.

[miphisto55]

Thank you VERY very much Brady! I can't wait to watch this entire video :D! I just finished watching the shortened version and I've just made myself a nice hot cup of coffee so I can enjoy this video!

[AstOnokReviews]

So... if this trend of breaking of symmetry continues, does that mean that eventually all particles will have mass? And if so, what implications would that have to... well everthing really.

[wilkes982]

ive watched all the other great videos but now that im off school and on holidays my brain cant handle these extencive concepts D: hahahah great videos none the less!

[sl9guitar]

BAD ASS!!! TY BRADY!

[shiftplusone80]

Is the interviewer Australian?

[wilkes982]

@shiftplusone80 yeah brady grew up in south australia :D

[shiftplusone80]

@wilkes982 Ah makes sense, thanks.

[BrandonCourage]

@onthecuttingedge2005 Read about gravitons on Wikipedia :)

[letterpool]

@3:40 so is it possible for the universe to at some point infinantly in the future to cool to absolute zero and everything changes to something else perhaps resets to zero except cold instead of hot? a big puddle of frozen........

[blenderpanzi]

@letterpool Problem: The point "infinitely in the future" will never happen. That's how "infinitely in the future" is defined.

[TheDingiso]

I LOVE YOU BRADY!!!

[porkypine1888]

OMG I LOVE THIS CHRISTMAS PRESENT! you knew what to get me :D!

[mangoismycat]

How exactly does the higgs boson give mass to itself? Counter-intuitive if you ask me...

[jeebersjumpincryst]

Brady, if Id seen this before the short version, I wouldve said there was no way it could be edited to anything shorter, but youve actually done a really really good job of it! Its also really good to have MrOldProf back! yay!!!

[onthecuttingedge2005]

If the Higgs gives mass to particles does that mean the Higgs also gives mass Gravity?

[sm0kingJay]

Amazing questions too, always key in an interview.

[SystemOverrideShow]

Keep up the good work Nottingham Science!

[SystemOverrideShow]

Lots of people in my Sixth Form say that I am sad for watching these videos - But I love them and I am so glad that you have a 49 minute episode xD - Unfortunately Higgs Boson isn't in my Physics A Level :(

[JossJossJoss1]

EPIC LONG NOTTINGHAM SCIENCE VIDEO WIN!

WE LOVE YOU BRADY!

Now all we need is 49 minutes of pure Poliakoff and our lives shall be complete!

[hla27b]

The Nobel Prize has reduced itself to handing awards to politicians for invading countries for oil. It is unfortunate that scientists should attach any importance to it, we ought to award our scientists better than that.

[joeloud1]

@hla27b The Nobel Peace Prize is not really the same as the Nobel Prize for Physics. The committee looks to experts in each of the different fields, except the Peace Prize is a bit different.

[hla27b]

@joeloud1 Not the same prize but the committee is the same, at lest the same organization. We should not allow it to be forgotten that they gave a blowjob to Obama in hope that he wont't invade any more. They made themselves totally irrevelent to science. Scientists are not in position to voice their opinion but we are and we should.

[jeebersjumpincryst]

i called in sick to work, just to watch this. and Im never sick. THANKYOU THANKYOU for all 49 mins 38 secs of this vid. this is what heaven would be like if there was one!

[irob160614]

have any theoretical physicist developed an explanation as to why some bosons have mass while photons dont or are any currently working on the problem? also do they know what it is about a particular particle that determines the strength of its interaction with the higgs field?

[TheKewlioShack]

never have I learned so much, yet felt so far from actually understanding .-.

I thought watching the entire video would help lol, only left me with more questions

[HWGuyEG]

Whooooo super long video finally!

[madzyadzy07]

Get the popcorn!

[vonnic]

prof. Browley sad that this give us ground to next theories, but what happed if it break that ground? :D 100 years ago people thinks that physic has ended.

[cornershot94]

Professor Bowley in another wonderful mood I see :P

[jstock2317]

sweet

[antonywilkins]

Fantastic video - best yet. Also the best explanation of the Higgs mechanism to the lay person I've heard

[un2mensch]

Excellent stuff, Señor Haran & all the physicists. I'm hoping to one day understand what influence interaction with the Higgs field has on mass/energy equivalence (E=mc²). Because when people talk about the Higgs field imparting mass, and when Ed says at 2:50 that particles were massless in the very early universe, surely that breaks this equivalence? Obviously there are different definitions for these terms that I don't know (and I know very little!)

[un2mensch]

@un2mensch (a google search for [mass energy equivalence higgs] shows some interesting results that I'm too dumb to understand :)

[metadaptation]

oh man, i love your intuition Brady! any other channel would have edited out some of this, but you were nice enough to give us a full 49 minutes, thank you!

[subliminalvibes]

Yep, going to put the kettle on and relax.

Not even going to watch the shorter version. :)

[KamenJesse]

Higgs Boson The Movie - *now playing*

[sausage4mash]

symmetry in a chess game often means a boring draw when the symmetry breaks things get interesting

[Esudao]

good lord i want comfy blue lecture seats at my university :(

[The0Keyboard0Kid]

Viewer number 2.

[TheWOWXDWOW]

science > sleep

[pwed546]

i didn't even start to watch the shorter version

[nottinghamscience]

@pwed546 ha ha... but you'll miss all my careful and clever edits! ;) but here you'll get the fuller picture...

[1KevinsFamousChili1]

@nottinghamscience e.g. one prf. gives the "Brad Pitt" analogy and then the other guy comes in and says "That's not it at all" lolol

[ksimmonsASU1]

@pwed546 Sorry brady, but 30 bonus minutes of science is cooler than some awesome editing work ;)

[dylanlawless1]

Forty nine.... f..f..forty nine minutes!

Oh yes. Boiling the kettle and kicking the f**k back

[nottinghamscience]

@dylanlawless1 you might need two cups!?

[jlmknight]

thanks we need longer videos for the more complicated topics

[adunakh0r]

Every vid should be as long as this one!

[nottinghamscience]

@adunakh0r I'd send 23 hours a day uploading videos if they all had to be this long! :)

[Xayionify]

@nottinghamscience 23hours to upload? WOAH! appreciate the effort still though

[dblitroot]

@nottinghamscience Don't worry, we won't mind... lol

[Hewpie]

Now I know that I cannot possibly ever understand the Higgs Mechanism...

Oh by the way I've got a joke:

A Higgs Boson walks into a roman catholic church and the priest stops the service, saying: "I'm sorry but Higg's Bosons are not allowed in here!" and the Higgs Boson replies: "But how can you have mass without me?"

[MrPyroguy1]

@Hewpie i like this joke about the neutrinos :D A neutrino walks into a bar, to smoke, and the bartender says, “need a light?” The neutrino replies, ” I am already one step aheadof you.”

[Hewpie]

@MrPyroguy1 Ha ha ha! That reminds me: A neutron walks into a bar and asks the bar man "how much is a beer?"

The bar man replies "For you, sir - no charge..."

[MrPyroguy1]

@Hewpie Haha:D :D

[sarcleaeolist]

@Hewpie OW that is a bad joke. Heh, and worthy of at least a chuckle.