Higgs.m4v

Find out about the Higgs Boson and the mechanism that causes fundamental particles to have mass. If the electron had a different mass, then the orbitals inside atoms would be a different size and the world would be a very different place.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Standard
• Model
• Higgs
• gauge
• Boson
• electron
• particle
• atom
• force
• field
• Feynman
• quantum
• mechanics
• energy
• virtual
• mass

[xXDominoXx]

great video, but i thought the graviton is only theoretical? wiki says it hasn't been detected yet, or they may have but don't quite know yet?

[cassiopeiaproject]

Correct, it is only theoretical. We included it because it is the most consistent way to include quantum gravity with the other forces.

[ActiveStorage]

Please stop comparing "field" concept with "matter" concept.

We KNOW what wind velocity or air temperature is.

we DO NOT KNOW what magnetic field is

[cassiopeiaproject]

Quantum Field Theory constitutes a thorough description of what fields are. Since it is a very successful theory, we can certainly say that we know what fields are -- both particle fields and force fields.

[CACBCCCU]

Gravitons have low energy and long wavelengths, IMO. There's the need for gravitons with super-luminal motion, or maybe long-distance tunneling, for gravitons to be emitted from within the event horizon of a black hole. Supposing a graviton medium is the Higgs field, it seems that the unbound Higgs boson should be even weaker, with a longer wavelength, and it should be cable of traveling faster, or tunneling further, than a graviton.

I'm just looking at things from another perspective here.

[cassiopeiaproject]

...and that's what makes science so much fun.

[tinivdheuvel]

Can't wait untill the CERN particle accelerator is repaired. The sooner they prove higgs-boson's exsist the better.

[tim10o0o0]

Thats like saying there are much more important things than music and sport, so they're a waste of time. For a lot of people, learning about the mind-blowing beauty, symmetry and complexity of the subatomic world that underpins our very existence, is fascinating... for some reason...

[boodistGeek]

Excellent, clear explanation with informative graphics

[MITHWORLD1]

Particles and anti-particles colliding create new particles,like the Higgs bosson? I thought they annihilate eachother...Has this something to do with Heissenberg principle? Thank you in advance

[muzammilali007]

@Neeraj12345678987654

if you mean to say that it's the dilution of Higgs field that's causing the acceleration of the universe than it's not right. Because it's the dark energy that's causing this expansion, if it were not the case the universe would have collapsed unto itself due to gravity caused by concentrated Higgs field.

Hope it answers the question.

[Neeraj12345678987654]

As the universe expands, shouldn't the Higgs field get more dilute and therefore particles will have less resistance to the Higgs ocean as they whizz around in space making all the particle travels faster. Is this right because this seems too bizarre.

[metadaptation]

even if we don't find the higgs boson, it was a most excellent hypothesis.

[EvilApple818]

Higg's Field is EVERYWHERE? Warms my heart :')

[selraith123]

Well there was a "source" for the higgs field, it was the big bang, it turned on the field, and since we are still feeling the effects of it the field continues to exist... please correct me if i am wrong, that is only my opinion :D

[nehorlavazapalka]

It is sad that higgs field came into existence one picosecond after the big bang, before then all particles moved at the speed of light, so according to STR all particles haven't had any chance to experince time.......

it is sad that time (or at least the time of our universe) started just planck's time after..........so, what option is right?

...information carried by photons exists forever?