So what IS the Higgs boson?

Hank responds to viewer questions, and explains what the Higgs boson particle actually IS.

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Produced by Hank Green
Chief Editor: Blake de Pastino
Cinematography: Nick Jenkins
Video Editor: Matt Ferguson
Graphics: Amber Bushnell
Written by: Hank Green

TAGS: higgs boson, god particle, mass, energy, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, standard model, force, gravity, electromagnetism, virtual particle, strong, weak, nuclear, density, magnet, particle accelerator, CERN, higgs field, physics, force carrier, quark, large hadron collider, scishow, dose, hank green

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[helloitsmasterhulk]

I want you to explain time travel. use words like timey whimey and wibbely wobbely.

[NSPhysX]

So, as I perceive it, which could well be fatally flawed, if one were to be able to create a, say, material or (seemingly more likely) some sort of "Field Effect" (Possibly Magnetism or Strong Nuclear Repulsion?) which could somehow NOT interact with the Higs field, you could, in affect, be enabled (with powerful enough propulsion to not take an inordinate amt of time) to travel FASTER than light. So I submit, attaining the ability to not 'interact' with Higs; you would not expand infinitely

[Anthonyk312]

@flyingtomato1000 For the last time, space does not mean the absense of matter, and I am done speaking with you. Goodbye.

[BlockisticStudios]

how do you give something mass

that gives mass

whaaaaaat

[BlockisticStudios]

Your mom is so fat, she has mass whether or not the Higgs boson exists.

[ZombyDyno]

@helloitsmasterhulk Time travel is kinda like the teleportation wobber. It would have to tear apart your cells, or whimies, and, if you believe in a soul, your sould passes to the next life..> So you die, but your body, or now robot, is remaining.

[MrManPear]

Time travel. Explain the multiple theories. Discuss the potential consequences of amassing such an energy required to create time travel. Even if the energy was present and it was applied the right way, how would this massive energy be confined? Such as to "the machine." How does time work? Is time an arrow in which the past, present, and future are all one and the same? Or does time work in frames, independent of one another. And if the latter, wouldn't that make TT a free pass to kill?

[MrManPear]

@Unsmiling94 Though it's lengthy, using multiple commas in a sentence, when appropriate, is not a grammatical issue, but merely, assuming the rules of such are followed, a complicated choice to follow when reading.

[funrizwan]

Kind of like the ether... Which doesn't exist.

[iGxFrankoharris]

mind = blown

[Unsmiling94]

@NSPhysX I just love how you're using big words and trying to sound smart with your well-developed vocabulary. Too bad that entire comment is pretty much just one huge run-on sentence. You have eight commas in the first sentence.

It's great to have good linguistic skills, but not as good if you've no idea how to use them.

<3

[Unsmiling94]

I liked the beard. ;-;