What is the Higgs boson?

John Ellis,theoretical physicist, answers the question "What is the Higgs boson?" in preparation for the press conference following the seminar on LHC 2012 results on the Higgs boson search, due on July 4 2012 at CERN. For more details: http://cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Re...

[video also available via https://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1458922]

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[lolzomgz1337]

He literally said: "Let me give you an analogy..."

[Gustavo Diaz Jerez]

It bents because gravity distorts (curves) space itself. Light just follows the straightest path possible, the so-called geodesic. If gravity is null the geodesic is a straight line, so light travels in a straight line, in the vicinity of a black hole gravity is very strong, so spacetime is strongly curved, so much in fact that all world lines point to the black hole's singularity.

[IKE Izerpizer]

SANTA!



[C4eternity]

Close but there is no such thing as a Higgs particle. Mass is an illusion. In between two opposing magnets, it feels like there is something solid but it is just constantly moving energy. You "feel" solid because the energy you are made of repels the energy of other matter therefore energy never changes from no mass to having mass, therefore no Higgs Boson. This is how a parallel universe can (and does) occupy the same space as this universe.

[mortu777]

@CERN I am obiously not as well documented about this subject as you are so my understanding is limited. What I understood was that mass a consequence and not a property?What if what gives mass to things is just a force like gravity or friction caused by the interaction of a particle and the bosson field?Is that correct?

[medexamtoolsdotcom]

Do you already have the one that says "And God Said" and then Maxwell's equations and then "And there was light"? That one's a classic.

[Xaero Degreaz]

Where can I get that T-shirt?

[Ailidh Mackichan]

This is incredibly well explained.

[Constantinos Kyventidis]

Let us abandon all these "brykolakes" of the past. Big Bang (Hawking) is TOTAL out of reality ,Higgs-like machanism is "political-like mechanism in nature"!!!Shame to CERN/UK/etc !!! Lets go only forwards:

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION IN MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS ,GREECE 2005-2012

with my New Mathematics(new logic,new probabilities,new set theories,new distancies,new geometry etc) and my New Physics(TOTAL new from the begin of our knowledge) solving at first the "unsolved problem of relativity".etc

[pandemonstrosity]

If we can control the effects of Higgs Boson we can easily achieve light-speed and may not even experience G-force at all.