Higgs Boson - What You Don't Know: Dan Hooper, Ph.D. at TEDxNaperville

With the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson Dan covers what we still don't understand about it, and the role the Higgs plays in our Universe. What does this actually mean for all of us?

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[whatabouttheearth]

And that why I love scientists, their like “and we might be wrong, how cool would that be? We can learn so many new things if we got it wrong”...the complete opposite of most people’s mindsets

[michaelprieto]

STOP cutting away to show me the speaker's face - KEEP THE EQUATIONS AND THE GRAPHICS ON THE SCREEN.

[ChaseNoStraighter]

This is an accurate, accessible talk about a difficult subject, the hardest kind of talk to do. Thank you Doctor for taking your valuable time to prepare and give this talk.

[johnsnakenburg]

Once I asked a CERN Physicist what an electron was. He said, "We don't know. All we do know is the mathematical relationship between our measurements."  So I asked how does the measurement work? He answered, "Same deal. Everything we know about particle physics is explained in terms of particle physics measurement, using what we assume to be particles that create  what we are measuring." I said, "You're talking in circles. He said, "You got a better explanation?"

[ChrisSmith-ilqe]

I would love to see the education and level of experience with particle physics that these people in the comments have that are criticizing everything about this guys talk and the Higgs.

[TonyLancon]

Im looking forward to see where this fascinating discovery goes. This also reveals we have much to learn about the universe.

[mrScififan]

Wonderful presentation. I love TED talks!

[jamescole]

ok years ago i watched a show on photons...it bothered me that noone knew how it traveled so far without a jetpack or something...i saw something at work one day dragging a mop bucket full of water..something got stuck under the wheel and the water vibrated..it looked like something i saw in a lecture about qauntum mechanics...i realized once i saw that that there were waves in space and photons were swept up in it and it goes from crest to crest without spending any time in the middle...i also envisioned these waves being compressed near solid objects like planets or asteroids creating a artificial gravity by pushing down on atoms..i also think the compressed waves around a large object could cause light to bend around that object...i sought out alot of different things on this topic to see if someone had a theory about this and found nothing...i was watching a show i think on time dialation because i think the waves being compressed or expanded can have a effect on time...and they started talking about the higgs boson field and they had a drawing of it and right then and there i realized they knew what i was talking about...i felt vindicated...the few people i told about this prob thought i was nuts..i do realize the planets revolve around the sun for different reasons which is why i believe gravities are created by multiple ways...i never found out someone had already came up with this theory because whenever i saw higgs boson i knew they were talking about a particle and i dont care about particles just the field...its my idea that this field was created by explosions on stars and supernovas and anything else that makes shockwaves which causes this field to intensify...i saw that before the big bang the higgs field was at zero which was what i thought too which emboldened me to write this...i figured if by some chance im right i better say it now...it could already be too late...also i am not educated and im not trying to sound smarter than i am...i only did what i had to do to graduate high school...i also think man made waves collapse the higgs boson field which is why when they turned on detectors in the double slit experiment the electrons were no longer waves but particles...sorry had to toss that in...i hope someone at least found this interesting...im taking the blue pill and going back to my life...thank you mr higgs and mr boson

[tanmoybanerjee]

Peter Higgs was Assited by Indian Physicist & Mathematics Genius Satyendranath Bose. Thats how Higgs Boson came into existence. But Higgs was so Fame Hungry, that He never mentioned Bose's name. He took the Credit all by Himself.

[nishkaarora]

I have learnt that the Higgs 'boson' was the excitement caused in the field when a particle interacts with it and not a physical part of the field, from 6:00 to 6:12, he speaks of them to be more like a little part of the field instead of the exctiation. Can anyone clear my doubt?

[souruff]

I love Ted talks wonderful presentetion

[aaronheiser]

I love how the speaker admits what they have found may not behave like the Higgs they predicted would, but he is only open to adding new particles with this info not changing anything in what CERN supporters already agree on even though they admit it's broken without the Higgs which CERN can barely detect even though it exists at all times and basically dictates energy turning from light or massless to having mass or solid.

[nydaloth]

In 1987, during a lunch at Fermi National lab, Leon Lederman told me that his books name was supposed to be the “God dammed particle” but his editor told him that, in order to better sell the book, the word “dammed” should be dropped. He wanted the book to be more light and funny but his editor thought that a more grandiose name will be wiser. Every explanation other than this for the “God Particle” in the title is just not true.

[MrRaghav]

So now that the standard model seems to be complete (at least this is what the lecturer says), what now holds for string theory in the future? Are physicists going to pursue it with the same vigour?

[amarejones]

I thinking the discovery is great since u know the frequency of the higgs y not let the supercomputer play it and next angle of things the next way to capture is to slow down since it dont last be4 it transform to solid. Energy freeze it in its state

[BteamBencher]

is there graffiti on the wall at 07:43??

[SatanicBunny]

Physical things can be massless because as the guy just explains in this video, there is what we now call the higgs field that spans all space and through which particles travel and in doing so gain mass. However, since all particles do not interact with this field, not all particles have mass.

Disclaimer: I am not a physicist and this is simply my understanding of the theory, so I may be mistaken (in which case I hope someone corrects me).

[dgarlitt]

It would be nice if you'd cut to the slides when he's referencing them.

[Ralph]

Think of gravity and the higgs field as having a kind of symbiotic relationship. Both are explained as a random accident by atheists like Steven Hawking. On the subject of gravity, Hawking says, "some universes may have none, while in ours we got lucky." We don't know why they exist or how they were created. Yet each of these would be worthless without the other. That's intelligent design, and an example of why Christians love science.

[dutchboss]

is it just me or is the animation at about 8:22 a bit inaccurate?  it shows a collision of a proton then a bunch of (what i assume is) sub atomic particles.. he seems to explain it as if the quarks have split completely but from what i understand this can not happen. rather the quarks should spread and a bunch of sub atomic particles are produced then fly out?