What is a Higgs Boson?

Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln describes the nature of the Higgs boson. Several large experimental groups are hot on the trail of this elusive subatomic particle which is thought to explain the origins of particle mass

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[sabatino1977]

Anyone know if this same particle physicist has a video explaining how it was discovered? Or rather, how can we measure it is there.

[fermilab]

All of his videos on the Higgs that are on the Fermilab channel are in the Higgs playlist.

[Orion Belt]

Time to Update! :)

The Higg's has been found!

:)

[Akagami Shanks]

Higgs boson doesn't give mass to everything, it's the higgs field that does that job. Higgs Boson is merely a fluctuation in the Higgs field. Higgs Boson is derived from the Higgs field and is a massive particle that's why it decays so quickly before it can be observed and studied.

[jfthuot]

What the hell did you smoke?

[meltfire]

i'm heavy not becos i m fat. i just interact with the higgs field more

[Constantinos Kyventidis]

Nature self has not any product of imagination like ..electron ,boson ,quark,photon etc .

The trick films (even the best ones) cannot create objects..because these are NOT EXISTING IN NATURE Nature is deterministic and has nothing to do with probability distributions.Is valid the uncertainity principle (even in my new physics) but NOT in the sense of the OLD (todays) edition..!! The idea of "minimal" in energy(or flow..) or "minimal" in mass(or gestalt..) is .... far away from nature self..!!!

[mrpengywinz123]

The Thumbnail looks like a particle orbiting another particle.

[ScienceNinjaDude]

Satyendra Nath Bose has very little to do with the Higgs boson. A boson is a particle with integer spin. Photons, gluons, W & Z bosons, pions and more are all bosons. The bosonic nature of the Higgs particle is an aspect of its nature, but is not central to the idea.

Those people who try to elevate Bose's contribution do not understand what the Higgs boson is all about.

Bose was a smart man. But his contribution to Higgs theory is zero.

[ramonpeerdeman]

good

[Naren Manral]

love to see dr higgs but where is dr bose in your video, and his contribution....... named after both???

[ElusiveParticle]

Artificial Intelligence Is God . com

[Constantinos Kyventidis]

In the whole Universe there are ONLY THREE kinds of ATOMS(not subdivided!!!) the ANO ,the KATO ,and the OUDETERO of my EXONIC THEORY ( i.e New Mathematics and New Physics)...The universe has not begin ,has not end IN SPACE and IN TIME...!!! Every magniture measures"time" i.e there are infinitely many "times". Only the"time " for Newton, i.e the independent variable t , is unique ..The Universe is double faced and there are all together 20 double universes in the same ..as different views etc!!

[ScienceNinjaDude]

Yes, for elementary particles (quarks, leptons, and the force carrying particles). For things like protons and neutrons, they get their mass from the energy that holds them together.