Particles walk into the Higgs field and get swole! 💪

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[austinroper]

Even at the highest level, science consists of smashing things together and seeing what comes apart

[mrdebris]

It‘s so polite and observantly from Brian to mention that it wasn‘t Mr Higgs himself who named it Higgs field.

[keatonbzarr]

I had the same reaction as Chuck did when I finally understood what the Higgs Boson is *mindblown* 🤯🤯🤯

[Xonatron]

Never heard it explained this way before.

[victor]

holy sh*t I actually get it now. if everything was explained in school like this humanity would all be a couple a couple levels up from where we are atm

[aagsar]

Mass is acquired when the particle slows down.
All particles default speed is light speed and therefore massless. ( Which is not really light speed but causality speed )

If a particle doesn't reach light speed, it is because something is making it slower, therefore acquiring mass in the procces.
So the particle is not slower because it has mass . It has mass because is slower.

So the Higgs field doesn't magically give mass but slow down particles.

[M_Alexander]

I respect the people who can make very complex concepts sound simple to understand. That's what genius is in my eyes

[kenlyneham]

In 1964, Peter Higgs, a theoretical physicist, was the single author of one of the three milestone papers published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) that proposed that spontaneous symmetry breaking in electroweak theory could explain the origin of mass of elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular.
It wasn't until 2012, that CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider.
That genius was born In England in 1939 and sadly, we lost him when he died in Scotland in 2024, aged 94.

[ZxZNebula]

I love Chuck’s reaction to stuff like these, it makes these podcasts feel so relatable. And the fact he’s actually really smart and able to understand these kinds of things is awesome

[Heaven]

Satyendranath Bose - The most underrated physicist, loved that Indian
guy ❤❤❤
The discoverer of " Boson" particle

[YaBoiTaeWu]

Y'all are the best science educators bar none. Thank you always for all the videos

[michaelbelayneh]

Y’all cut out the most mind boggling part - the boson within the Higgs field that gets knocked out then starts to interact with the Higgs field itself as if it was another particle w/ mass! The same higgs field it USED to be a part of!

So that separated Higgs boson starts bumping into the higgs field, which gives it mass! Usually higgs bosons are massless/don’t interact with their own field.

That’s like a water molecule within a water wave on a beach getting separated from the water wave, then getting a surfboard, and then RIDING THE WAVE IT USED TO BE INSIDE OF

[PiyushKumar-ruio]

Bosons are named after Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist and professor at the University of Calcutta and the University of Dhaka, in recognition of his contributions to science

[pulsefel]

best description i heard for it was the field is like a fishing net where the nodes of the net are where the particles lie. anything trying to move through spaces gets caught by the net, bigger things catching more nodes.

[theGoldenHeel]

I wanna say Chuck's last remark is actually brilliant 😶

[Gion-xt]

This is why I like this setup. Two pro perspectives and a leyman like me asking the questions I need for context 😅

[pedrofelipefreitas]

Just a detail, as far as i know, the higgs field gives mass to fundamental particles that gave intrinsic mass.

So, for example, most of the mass in a proton or neutron is actually energy that's bound in the gluons that hold the quarks together, not the mass given by the higgs field.

[evillemike]

Really glad we have people who step up and volunteer to get the headaches that come from thinking that stuff through so I don't have to. My head thanks you for your service, guys.

[Darroc]

Needed this after playing Death Stranding

[georgesantoyo]

That's interesting because I can feel evil about a block away, it feels like a forcefield.