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The God Particle-What is the Higgs Boson?

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In particle physics, the Higgs boson is a massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model.

The Higgs boson is the only Standard Model particle yet to be observed.

Experimental detection of the Higgs boson would help to explain how massless elementary particles can cause matter to have mass.

More specifically, the Higgs boson would explain the difference between the massless photon, which mediates electromagnetism, and the relatively massive W and Z bosons, which mediate the weak force.

If the Higgs boson exists, it would be an integral and pervasive component of the material world.


The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, which came online on September 10, 2008 and will become fully operational in 2009, is expected to provide experimental evidence confirming or refuting the Higgs boson's existence.

CERN's website: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/

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  • Ether? Minecraft?

  • 'God Particle' my arse. I can't stand that lazy terminology. It's got eff all to do with some supernatural bullshite,so please, please STOP linking them in this way !

  • "if we are like stars what is the matter with a black hole then?" hehehhe... CERN is destroyed hehehehe good trip mr HAVARD, and why you think they call it God particle? cuz of it´s speed hahaha... Nah.. but nevermind. good animation though. but that mind of us we cannot could in full. matter to the case will come fast. do our body contain atoms? if so what then?

  • dark dream.......... well.. it beats dark energi... "heavy mass, body index" it is a depression nothing more. And one will never escape that PIT of hell-> thoughts every day on and on... Einstein wasn´t that happy.

  • higgs field = dark energy

  • This has nothing to do with the ether. The ether was invented as a medium for light to propagate through. The Higgs field gives particles their mass.

  • @wkrepelin Youtube not reputable source? Come one, the best things are on Youtube. Everyone gets there information from youtube and an actual tv. Anything other than public broadcast that comes from it is a solid source that 60% of the US uses. Yep. You the system really made as all stupid. Its sad how you have to caution people from beleiving everything they see in a video. LOL!

  • Sorta sounds like herbert the pervert. Especially listen to the part at 0:56 keep listening for a bit you'll hear it LOL!  hmmmmm.

  • @loko1701

    Einstein predicted the weirdest things ever, even ignorant people like you would've denied back then. He said that gravity bent time and gravity. Therefore, bending light. They proved his theory right during an eclipse when the light of a star behing the sun was bent around and became visible.

    Now how did he even remotely predict all this?? What make's u think these scientists can't do the same thing??And there have been hundreds proving people wrong like you.

  • Interesting subject ... Most boring narrative. What's up with the stupid animation? Most interesting subject... Ruined!!!!!

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