Brian Greene explains some math behind the Higgs Boson

Watch an overview of the math behind the Nobel Prize-winning Higgs Boson discovery with Brian Greene.

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[DANGJOS]

I love it when they're not afraid to show the mathematics!

[EMlNEM]

Someday I'll understand what I just watched

[abcx]

i like to thank this guy and all the mathematician and physicists for giving engineers the tools necessary to advance technology.

[TwahaHamisi]

Brian Green's descriptions always makes me think i understand Maths, until the video is over and everything falls apart. Thank you Sir!

[jss]

Explaining so non-mathmaticians can understand is fantastic and illustrates how truly knowledgable you are. Wish you could get NOVA to let you do a special on just this topic. A little history, how to understand it, and what does it mean moving forward.

[rrnlg]

One day I will understand this. Well time to go relearn how to long divide...

[jacobcastillo]

Thanks Brian Greene, I feared that I would have to do a lot of work before Higgs Field stuff started making sense, but you explained it all much better than I had expected.

[jackpullen]

I like it when people such as Rodger Penrose take the time to explain meanings of symbols in equations, regardless of your math skills it actually helps in understanding much of the written text as in his book, " Shadows of the Mind ".

[purpleaeyr]

I always felt like reading physics books without equations with no different than reading a piece of literature and calling it history. Videos like this make everything fit into place and adds clarity to the science behind it as to why something is true. So thanks for this video, BG!

[andrewgrandahl]

Wow, that actually helped me understand this a lot better. Symmetry and fractals are the most beautiful aspects of reality.

[mdefp]

Wipes drool from chin.. I don't have a single fucking clue what I just watched lol. Happy to live in a world where other people have this gift though!

[andyiswonderful]

Did they screw up that equation in the graphics? Where is the bar on top of psi?

[realmetatron]

If think someone forgot to add the bar over the first psi ;)
The time has come to show equations more often, because most laypeople think we are only guessing around in physics and talk in pictures. And that is why many think popular books contain everything they need in order work on it themselves. They need to see the kind of complexity we are dealing with - the mathematics - so they can come to appreciate how deep we are going and how rigorous we are in our pursuit of the operations of the universe.

[greg]

Dear Kiddo, thanks for your question! It's such a pleasure to hear from someone who finally understands the science. Keep up the good work!

--Brian

[NocturnalJin]

In the graphics, psi-bar doesn't have a bar over it.

[SomjitNag]

i wish we had teachers who could explain things like this back when we were at school.

[abidmalik]

Sir Green u r amazing ..I always love to listen to u ..from Pakistan

[crazieeez]

Yay for Brian Greene! I like it that he gives us all the math details.

[EM-qxhx]

I got in here curious to hear something about the particle accelerator, and I got out astonished by how incredibly abstract and incomprehensible these people's jobs are.

[javedsingh]

Those of you who are interested in Geometry and Modern Physics I suggest you watch Atiyah's Lectures on Youtube.
There is one on Geometry and Physics but a very interesting one on 'What is a spinor?'
He obviously approaches the question from the perspective of a geometer but it is fascinating because one could offer a text book response; i.e. a section of a spin bundle blah....blah...or some variant of but Atiyah asks a more fundamental question; what is the geometry/topology behind such objects and maybe the answer will bring about a better understanding of this incredible marriage between modern physics and modern geometry.
I also recommend Lawson's etal Spin Geometry as well as Donaldson Kronheimer Geometry of 4 manifolds and if you can get a hold of( I believe Morgan) Seiberg Witten Equations!