Higgs Boson (extended interview footage)

Extended interview footage from the Sixty Symbols video about the Higgs Boson.

Main video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTNQOShuvoQ

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Higgs
• Boson
• LHC
• Large
• Large Hadron Collider

[Spurdelspardel]

31536000 seconds in a year give 6307200000000000 collisions (6,307 * 10^15 or six quadrillion,

three hundred seven trillion,

two hundred billion)

Statistically higgs appears in one out of 2,102,400,000,000,000 collisions (2,1024 * 10^15 or two quadrillion,

one hundred two trillion,

four hundred billion). It is 3,30*10^12 times less than the number of atoms in your 70kg body and 358000 times less than the number of all the sand grains in the world

[MrOldprof]

@khufu23 I try not to do grumpy in videos, but I feel ignorant about particle physics (even though I have given a course of lectures on it), and I wanted to do justice to Phil Anderson, one of the greatest physicists of our time, or at least mine. Also I am getting old (at the same rate as everyone else) and I wanted to do a 60 symbols video really well --- Brady has been making me do videos on numberphile which is perhaps more my intellectual level. See the latest one on 15 =bumfit.

[mceyekon]

As most things in QED, this bosom is counterintuitive: particles need another particle to gain mass so that they can interract with eachother gravitationally. Well, the photon's mass is zero and it still interract with gravity: gravitational lensing! Could someone explain this appearent paradox?

[mceyekon]

@Hobypyrocom

Yeah, in a sense i'd go with it: string theory would be brilliant. Problem is...not yet testable, therefore, not science (it requires 11 dimensions which you could not yet find a way of proving them).

[CircadianR]

@BIGWUNuvDbunch Ok then, that was kind of my question. Did the particles which now have mass not exist then (as only the massless ones would). But I understand little better now, the Higgs boson/mechanism didn't invent massive particles it gave the existing ones mass. I didn't understand!

[BIGWUNuvDbunch]

@CircadianR the quarks had no mass

[CircadianR]

So if everything was massless, does that mean things like protons had no mass, or that they didn't exist yet?

[sfsoma]

oops, 35:44

[sfsoma]

Brady has learned to ask the most brill questions 35:11

[sfsoma]

Brady has learned to ask the most brill questions 35:11

[sfsoma]

@ExperienceCounts2 I've had the same thought.

[toobeetoobeetoo]

I don't know how I missed this vid the first time around. I gotta say, I am getting a new appreciation for the difficult job Brady and the absolutely brilliant minds do when making these. I feel really blessed to be able to hear their input and interpretations of the subject matter at hand. One last observation: Brady, you are making videos of great historical significance here. How does that feel?