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What Gives Particles Mass? Searching for the Higgs Boson

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More than two dozen UC San Diego physicists are working with hundreds of other scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, searching for a subatomic particle called the "Higgs boson." How are they doing it? What have they found thus far? And why is this search considered one of civilization's greatest quests? UC San Diego Professor of Physics Vivek Sharma, who directs the Higgs search for the CMS collaboration, explains what physicists hope to achieve at the world's largest scientific experiment, involving an estimated 10,000 individuals from 60 countries. Series: "Frontiers of Knowledge" [2/2011] [Science] [Show ID: 20046]

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  • Collaboration; if only politicans could figure it out.

  • this is really appreciated. i have honestly been wondering how light can have mass and thus be effected by gravity, yet travel at the speed of light and thus due to relativity travel through time very slowly. i suspect i do not explain my query well, but i am not a physicist and as i learned about relativity this particular question really vexed me. i hope as i watch the program my question is answered!

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  • I have a question about neutrinos supposedly gaining mass when they travel faster than the speed of light. I know very little of physics but what I do know is mass is usually decreased with speed. It seems to me that just because a particle is doing something that is opposite of what is expected...faster than speed of light, it has an opposite effect...gaining mass. So much more could be happening than gaining mass or loosing energy. Are there any theories on this? Thanks!

  • @iiiiblaze They have.

  • excellent work and excellent speaker

  • • SandustanBrasov

    It say: with the exception of the Higgs boson all the predicted particles of Standard Model were detected and the them properties were measured with precision. The Standard Model of particles to arrived let be verified, but, if the Higgs boson is not finded, then the Standard Model and the others models will be necessary to be reconstruct from zero.

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