What Today's Higgs Boson Discovery Really Means
The boson series, in short and somewhat muddied recollection of the subject. Please do your own research if you want a fully accurate description, google and wikipedia are great places to start, cassiopea project has a video series on the standard model that explain it pretty well too. The term 'boson' is a concatenation of Bose-Einstein, representing physical properties which are very alien to what we normally observe. Bosons under the standard model are also force carriers, meaning these are what's responsible for the manifestation of the forces we observe in nature. Under the standard model, the mass of a (non-elementary) particle should be proportional to the amount of Higgs bosons present in that particle.
Physicists reveal compelling evidence for the "God Particle"
Turtles. Turtles all the way down. More lack of knowledge time! Maybe the Higgs boson is the particle form of mass? Electromagnetism = Travels in photons (allows us to see light etc) Strong intecaction = Travels in gluons (holds protons together etc) Weak interaction = Travels in W and Z particles (radioactive decay etc) Each of these theories work pretty well on their own right and currently the Standard Model pretty nicely explains and predicts a lot of stuff. Higgs boson is (theoretically) one of the elementary particles.
Elusive Higgs Particle Discovered!
When scientists convinced European politicians to invest $10 billion in the 17 mile circumference Large Hadron Collider, they said that discovering the Higg’s Particle was one of their main goals. This elusive particle was predicted by Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, but never proved, and has become an important part of many theories in physics; its existence, if proved, would solidify a lot of theoretical work. So sought is it, that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman called it a “God Particle” — much to the chagrin and continual annoyance to fellow scientists, after the public picked up that name — and others have likewise used religious terms, calling it “the holy grail” of particle physics. Physics uses a careful system that refuses to consider a thing discovered unless it meets a certain degree of probability. Having such assurance, is important, for after all, we can’t see the Higgs boson. Did you like this? Elusive Higgs Particle Discovered!
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Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer | December 13, 2011 08:04am ET Credit: MichaelTaylor | Shutterstock Scientists announced today (Dec. 13) that they're closing in on the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that's been predicted but never detected. Now researchers at the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, say they've narrowed down the mass range of the Higgs, and even see preliminary hints that it might exist. If physicists can definitively detect the Higgs boson and determine its mass, the discovery would have wide-reaching implications. Here are five of the biggest.
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