Higgs Boson Discovery Wins Nobel Prize for Physics

Peter Higgs and Francois Englert win Nobel Prize in Physics. Want to know what makes the Higgs Boson Nobel Prize-worthy? Brian Greene explains.

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[imasian]

I love Brian Greene....he explains complex things in a way it becomes easily

[gwho]

"spanking space, and it will jiggle"

This is how physicists get hard.

Large hadron collider, or large hardon collider?

[Omar-ujbt]

Bryan green simply is the best teacher in physics i have ever seen..

[tattvabodhaka]

Most erotic particle physics explanation I’ve ever heard 😂

[baloobawhales]

E=Ohmc^v (e=mc^2 describes a zero energy (or decibel as in energy conditions) in relationship to mass in a fundamental energy state). a zero energy state can assiciate with other energy states as entropy while charge would interact with another polarity.

[the_martian_]

Brian Greene is amazing. Writes amazing books too. I highly recommend them.

[jeffclark]

I've been fallowing the progress of the Higgs field in science and I really think the space we think of as empty space is bristling with energy and we will harness it for free energy one day, and more! Tesla knew this 80 years or so ago.

[johnmcknight]

When you press on any object or even walk across the room wouldn’t it be electromagnetism that is causing the resistance you feel? When mass meets mass, you have fusion. We never actually touch anything, just the EM fields generated by mass.

[baloobawhales]

a charge condition is thermodynamically neutral, atoms cooling constantly increasing superconduction efficiency or charging.. a charge can be a wave.. (atoms cooling increasing charge to a sinewave volume or pressure..

[eriknelson]

Electrons have a total spin of SQRT(3)/2 = SQRT( 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 ).

If there were small extra dimension(s) per the theories of Kaluza-Klein and Professor Lisa Randall, EM charge could be viewed as motion in those extra dimension(s).

And if electrons can move in extra dimensions, then they could spin in them also. And if electrons had another 1/2 unit of spin, in the extra dimension(s), then they too would be total spin 1 particles, SQRT(1/2+1/2+1/2 + 1/2) = 1.

Fermions could all be spin = 1 particles, with some of their spin oriented into the extra dimension(s). The extra spin would be "hidden" from our limited 3D perspective.

Similarly, perhaps a Higgs Boson could also be total spin = 1, but with all one unit of spin oriented into the extra dimension(s), normal to our 3D perspective, and so "hidden" from obvious detection?

[ralphinoful]

As a math major... being able to tell someone why math is important is really hard. But this basically sums it up. We mathematicians figure something out before we are able to test it. And then physicists / engineers find a way to actually test it. We are the philosophers of the mathematical world, we just pose the questions.

[rommelnb]

In the pebble analogy, it goes on collecting more and more molasses as it keeps falling. Doesn't it imply electron starts from nothing and continues getting mass. How is then its mass constant?

[markreyes]

what composes the "Boson particle" then? What field or force is operating in order for "Higgs field" to exist?

[solapowsj]

The resistance you feel when pushing a 25-tonne boat in water is Inertial Mass. It's due to mass of quark force at 'c' locked into vacuum of free space with gyration of mass about it. You won't understand as laypersons, but ok if you're informed.
The resistance due to Higgs field is due to formation of standing waves about bodies moving at speeds close to 'c'.

[baloobawhales]

a boson may be an interacting charge as a wave condition.. (generally as substance mass equally attracts in all universal directions as a zero energy state..)

[phucaonguyenhong]

Great now even those tiny particles found aliens

[baloobawhales]

fractions describe where fields interact as charges... in otherwords waveforms interacting as charges..

[md.fazlulkarim]

Boson came from the name of a scientist of Bangladesh " Sattendranath Boson" but many of us do not know about his joint contribution with Higs

[americancitizen]

I liked the "spanking space" analogy.

[ashutoshjha]

what would happen if somehow a bubble is created in higgs field?



will the particles hitting the bubble and entering through lose mass?