In search of giants - the hunt for the Higgs part 2/2

Particle physicist Dr Brian Cox explains how quantum mechanics has changed the way we think the world works, and why it predicts the existence of a particle that's never been seen.

The Higgs boson is a mysterious particle that explains why things have mass. Cox reveals how the Large Hadron Collider experiment at CERN is intended to smash particles together so violently that the Higgs boson can be detected and studied for the first time.

Published: 23 November 2007

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• science
• lhc
• large
• hadron
• collider
• universe
• theoretical
• experimental
• physics
• big
• bang
• theory
• yt:crop=16:9

[ArsVenger]

Brian Cox - the best!!!

[greenleaf81]

Thanks for posting the videos.

[longmanNZ]

@ArsVenger

Na... the man!

[DieselDownunder]

not bad....considering my game&watch has better graphics!!!

[EinkOLED]

What this video tries to explain is the process or the one unified force which once occupied the whole early universe of which then seperated into the fundamental forces we see today. The particular seperation raises the question, how did other particles aquire mass W/Z boson while others forcer carriers such as the photon didn't?

Another force carrier must be responsible 'boson', unifying the forces together will allow us to observe it.

[Clausfarre]

Super collid-her? No, I just met her.. ha ha.

Thanks for the upload

We didn't really get to the boson and higgs part of the story though.