We've found it (or one of them). You cant actually find a Higgs Boson. What you look for are the decay products of the Higgs which have a slightly greater prominence that would otherwise be expected.
It was postulated by Peter Higgs in 1964 and last year a Higgs like particle was discovered at the LHC. It has since been confirmed that it is a Higgs. The LHC was largely set up to do this. Now it goes on to further discoveries.
The Higgs field is everywhere and is mediated by the Higgs Boson (in the same way as a virtual photon mediates the electromagnetic force). The interaction of the various particles with the Higgs field determines whether they get mass. If they do, then they don't travel at the speed of light. Photons don't appear to interact with the Higgs field so they have no mass and consequently travel at the speed of light.
You might want to look at my 5 videos (each of about 10 mins) on Special Relativity for a more detailed explanation. The relative collision speed can never be greater than the speed of light. Each proton will see the other approaching at a relative speed greater than 99.999% but less than 100% of c.
Well to be strict about it, we have found a Higgs-like particle. Most people believe it is the Higgs but a bit more work is needed to confirm that this is definitely the case.
@FrankCoffman Good questions. Many of which don't have answers. But there is a similar thing to the Higgs field, in that it doesn't change its density as the universe expands, and that is vacuum energy or dark energy. Quite why it doesn't change its density as the universe extends we don't know.
maxpayne254"[..] what gives the higgs boson mass?" Its mates. Now hand me that Nobel prize in physics. :-) Sincerely - A silly software engineer late at night
@@teachermichaelmaalim6103 There is a mathematical equation described how it gives mass. The equation also says that it's self interacting. Not circular.
I have put the videos in playlists and my recommended order of viewing is the order in the playlist. I am shortly about to do a new series on particle physics.
The Higgs Field φ is a complex field so it has a real and imaginary term. I just drew the real term in the 2D image, but the imaginary term (the axis I didnt draw) comes out of the paper. The vertical axis is the potential associated with the field.
Like most metaphors it only works if it works. Prof Brian Cox tells the story of how the Higgs was described to the politicians who were being asked to fund the LHC. Suppose there was a reception at a political conference. If I were to walk across the room no-one would stop me. I am a photon. But if the president/ prime minister were to walk in they would immediately be surrounded by all those wanting to talk to them and would be slowed down and gain "mass". It seemed to do the trick.
Well remember that the Higgs Field only gives mass to fundamental particles like quarks and electrons. It doesn't give mass to heavier particles eg protons or you and me. The gravitational attraction between 2 quarks will be very small, tho it must exist. But that is just because the quarks have mass and anything with mass exerts a gravitational force on something else with mass.
Great questions to which we do not know the answers. It is true that the Higgs field is everywhere in space. Higgs bosons however have very short lifetimes. If the recent discovery of the Higgs like particle is confirmed as the Higgs the method of detection was to look for the different types of particles into which the Higgs decays. So it appears to have gauge boson like qualities of being created and decaying in short time order.
No I didnt meant to imply that the Higgs and Dark energy are related. I just wanted to point out that dark energy (on which I have a separate video) is not density dependent, so the HIggs would not be alone in that regard.
If you could stop the Higgs field from giving rise to mass you would stop the fundamental particles eg quarks from having mass. All fundamental particles would therefore travel at the speed of light. They wouldn't combine to become larger structures, eg protons and atoms. So there would be no material world.
That's about it. Basically the maths behind the standard model of elementary particles (not including the Higgs) says that none of them has mass. So a device had to be found to give them mass ie the Higgs mechanism. But there is no reason other particles eg the Higgs can't have mass not derived from a Higgs field.
Well not quite. As one of my other contributors has pointed out, what has actually been found is a Higgs-like particle. I think most informed people think it must be the Higgs but strictly at the moment it is only Higgs-like. More work needed to show it is actually THE Higgs.
If the recently discovered Higgs-like particle turns out to be the Higgs (and most people think it is) then it has a mass of 126GeV/c2 (which is roughly 126 times the mass of a proton). The next question of course is, what gives the Higgs its mass. And we don't know the answer to that.
Two very good questions to which we don't know answers. Maxwell's equations suggest a speed (which turns out to be the speed of light) which appears to be a universal speed limit. But why it should be that particular value is unknown. My vid on spec rel shows why its a limit. Since Higgs Field gives different fundamental particles different masses there must be some difference in their characteristics which interact with that field. Hopefully we'll learn more as work on the Higgs progresses.
The Higgs mechanism does not give mass to everything. It is just the mechanism which gives mass to the constituent particles of the standard model. The Higgs boson itself can have mass without the need for a Higgs field.
Sorry about that. I don't know why. I have just played it on my MacBook and it played OK including beyond 11:14. I can only suppose that there is a break at that point in the streaming from RUclips that may explain it.
Fundamental really means that there does not appear to be any constituent (or smaller) parts to the fundamental particles. It does not mean that they have no size.
1/1 = 1. 1/0.5 = 2. 1/0.05 = 20. 1/0.005 = 200. ie the smaller the denominator the larger the result. As the denominator approaches 0, the result approaches infinity.
Jonn Kammeron - well this video was uploaded before the initial announcement. The LHC did discover a new particle that shows many of the signs predicted to be a higgs (parity, zero spin and decays in predicted ways) but truthfully work is still being done on it. It has been suggested that there may be more than one higgs.
At 8:26, wouldnt it be easier to explain the full equation: E^2 = (m*c^2)^2 + (p*c)^2 where p is the momentum of the photon, and when its massless the equation simplifies to E = pc. Great video by the way.
I think it best if I point you to a lecture on this by Prof Leonard Susskind. I cant put web addresses in a comment but if you search on Google for "Lecture 8 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model" you will find it. He covers the Higgs phenomena in some detail including the field and potential.
Gluons are thought to have no or very small mass. The question you might be asking is how can a proton have a mass of almost 1GeV when the mass of the 3 constituent quarks is nothing like that much. The remainder of the proton mass is due to the kinetic energy of the quarks and to the energy of the gluon fields that bind the quarks together. This is called quark confinement. In other words the energy associated with keeping quarks confined to the proton constitutes most of the proton mass.
I agree with BlueCosmology. The Higgs Mechanism gives mass to the fundamental particles (eg quarks). But the mass of a proton is hugely greater than the mass of its constituent parts and is generally attributable to what's called quark confinement ie restricting quarks to be confined within a proton.
Its thought to be a case of how quarks interact via the exchange of gluons. If you try to separate two quarks the energy between them increases until (before separation) there is enough energy for pair production of a quark and anti-quark. That's why you can't isolate a quark. Since energy and mass are the same thing E=mc2 it gives a clue about how confinement leads to mass.
That's a question we haven't got the answer to yet. And it's a very good question. If the Higgs like particle discovered earlier this year is indeed the Higgs (and most people think it is) then it has a mass of about 125GeV. And yet it gives mass to fundamental particles like quarks, And the up quark has a mass of only 3MeV.
A puzzle indeed. The explanation is that a W boson can "borrow" energy (hence mass) for a very short time provided it is paid back. So a neutron can decay into a proton via a W- even tho the W- is 80 times larger than the neutron or proton
With the caveat that we always need to be careful how far we take an analogy, you are right. It is the nature of the Higgs field which gives fundamental particles their mass. If the field were different then particles might have more or less or no mass.
In essence, everything is energy and mass because of Einstein's equation E=mc squared. Light does not bend in a gravitational field because it has mass but rather because of the principle of equivalence.
I don't think yesterday's announcement takes us any further forward in relation to string theory. I guess string theorists assumed the existence of the Higgs anyway,
An electric field arises from some form of charged particle. The magnetic field arises from a magnet. the field represents the capability to impose a force on another charged particle under certain circumstances. I'm about to put up a video this week on electromagnetic radiation.
bad explanation of mass due to Higgs field. Pop sci is always quick to invoke analogies like viscosity and friction through a medium, but that's nothing like the Higgs mechanism. The mass arises from the particle's confinement within the field; in order to accelerate spatially, the particle must devote some of the incoming energy to wiggling back and forth across that gutter in the potential first.
Thank you for your response - that answers my question. If I may ask another: how is potential energy coupled to the Higgs field? For instance, gravity and the electric field interact with their respective charge particles via a well defined equations which calculate what force vectors will act on charges. This results in a potential field, as force through a distance is an act of work that tends to be done by the field in any given system. Does the Higgs field have such a relationship?
Are the particles inherently different apart from their interaction with the Higgs field? Is there something unique with each particle type such that causes a unique value of interaction?
I’m no expert, but I don’ think that the idea of a “resting mass” exists. There is no ‘mass’ or ‘gravity’ outside of a centripetal or centrifugal spin of the aether field. And what Einstein calls “the speed of light” is really the speed of electromagnetic wave induction through the ZPE Aether field. (Just like Nikola Telsa, Steinmetz, and Maxwell said…)
@15:30 if you Google it, it says the mass is 125GeV. That's pretty amazing that the scientists predicted a range of 100-500GeV and it turned out to be within that range. I hope they solve singularities and black holes in my lifetime!! So interesting...
Mass Higgs-field vector +Mu of the universe acting upon accelerating mass +/-m from a distance radius! Time dilating inertial ref-frames are opposed motion simulating rest and balance now through violent motion The locational spherical inward logarithmic absorption density and outward exponential emission density of electromagnetic waves is oscillating energy and mass, antimatter matter annihilation or input+0/1-output electric charge and EM-fields or resonance and interference as time unfolds!
W. Heisenberg, the father of particle accelerators call an end for them in 1975 when he realized that particle's are really Standing-Wave's!!! Energy is motion. All motion is spiral. Big bang's 360, 24/7. All direction is spherically curved. It is the locational spherical inward absorption and outward emission density of electromagnetic waves thats forming antimatter input+0/1-output matter annihilation forming + and - electric charge, EM-fields, forward flow of time and all the forces of nature
The difficulty of finding it, something that "gives objects mass" portends a future discrediting. String theory, anyone? All collections of atoms have mass. - recall the relative ease of discovering spectral lines of the elements - and recall the relative ease of discovering the electron Physics is in deep trouble. Infinities/'renormalization', gravity vs. quantum theory, the nearly-impossible-to-find cause of mass, the 'graviton' It means there is GREAT OPPORTUNITY. .
Hi , A particle moving in a transmission medium. Kinetic energy of a particle ( charge) moving at the velocity of v has two different values: Kinetic energy of a particle ( charge) Tkin id =mc^2 [ln |1-v/c|+ (v/c) / (1-v/c) ] in direction of motion of a particle ( charge) It is realy as Newton´s kinetic energy, where v is velocity of a particle ( charge) . Kinetic energy of a particle ( charge) Tkin ad = mc^2 [ln |1+v/c|- (v/c) / (1+v/c) ] against direction of motion of a particle ( charge) It is realy as Maxwell´s electromagnetic wave energy, where v is velocity of a particle ( charge). Corrected Third Newton's law of motion : All movements in physics are based on principle of action - reaction and on velocity of stable particles ( e-, p+,n0, D, He-3, α ). Action, as a motion of stable charged particles ( e-, p+,n0, D, He-3, α ), is characterized speeds up in source along ellipse or quasi- elipse ( excentricity e -> 0 ). 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Presentation on European Phys. Soc. 10th Gen. Conf. - Trends in Physics ( EPS 10) Sevilla , E 9. -13 September 1996, www.trendsinphysics.info/ vixra.org/pdf/1502.0184v1.pdf Einstein's theory of relativity can not explain ... Abstract 1. Movement principles of the fast-spinning pulsars, (vixra.org/pdf/1404.0238v1.pdf Movement Principles of the Fast-Spinning Bodies ) 2. Nuclear Fusion , ( vixra.org/pdf/1404.0130v1.pdf ) 3. Wave - Particle Duality as Kinetic Energy Against and In Direction of Motion 4. the 4th Maxwell's equation, (2.38) in www.trendsinphysics.info/kniha/2-1.html#2-1-3 5. Lorentz equals without the help of Space-Time, (2.23) - (2.27) in www.trendsinphysics.info/kniha/2-1.html#2-1-3 6.Confinement of quarks (vixra.org/pdf/1405.0307v1.pdf What is Quark? ) 7. Great Table of Elementary Particles ( vixra.org/pdf/1404.0243v1.pdf ) 8. Spectral line Hα ( vixra.org/pdf/1404.0248v1.pdf ň 9. Neutrino Oscillations ( vixra.org/pdf/1404.0369v1.pdf ) 10. Form of the interference field must be non-linear. ( vixra.org/pdf/1411.0531v1.pdf ) 11.Form of Intensity of the Moving Charge Electric Field must be asymmetrical. ( vixra.org/pdf/1411.0533v1.pdf ) 12.Kinetic energy of a charge moving at the velocity of v has two different values: Kinetic energy against direction of motion as wave Tkin ad = mc2 [ln |1+v/c|- (v/c)/(1+v/c)] Kinetic energy in direction of motion as particle Tkin id = mc2 [ln|1-v/c|+ (v/c)/(1-v/c)] ( vixra.org/pdf/1411.0530v1.pdf , vixra.org/pdf/1405.0334v1.pdf , vixra.org/pdf/1409.0090v1.pdf Three Objections to Modern Physics ) 13. Yukawa potential 1905 A.E. : Einstein ´s theory Tkin =mc^2 - mo c^2 1996: Tkin id =mc^2 [ln |1-v/c|+ (v/c) / (1-v/c) ] Tkin ad = mc^2 [ln |1+v/c|- (v/c) / (1+v/c) ] Einstein's theory works for v < 0.1c. v/c.......Tkin ad .................Tkin id ...............Tkin (A.E.) 0.1..... 0.00439 mc^2...0.0057 mc^2....0.0050 mo c^2 0.2.....0.0156 mc^2.....0.0268 mc^2......0.0200 mo c^2 0.3.....0.0316 mc^2.....0.0719 mc^2......0.0480 mo c^2 0.4.....0.0508 mc^2.....0.1558 mc^2......0.0910 mo c^2 0.5.....0.0722 mc^2.....0.3068 mc^2......0.1550 mo c^2 0.6.....0.0950 mc^2.....0.5837 mc^2......0.2500 mo c^2 0.7.....0.1174 mc^2.....1.1293 mc^2.......0.4010 mo c^2 0.8.....0.1434 mc^2.....2.3905 mc^2......0.6670 mo c^2 0.9.....0.1680 mc^2.....6.6974 mc^2......1.2930 mo c^2 0.99...0.1906 mc^2....94.3948 m^c2.....6.9200 mo c^2 1……....0.1931 mc^2..........infinite....................infinite www.trendsinphysics.info/ Why relativity works in some cases and fails in others ? 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The deeper meaning the Higgs field gives answer to, is how elementary particles which exhibit by any means no gravity at all can have mass? In other words, no ever either theoretically or by experiment quantum gravity (i.e. gravity between elementary particles) was established or proven although an apparent mass is given to them by the Higgs field mechanism. Therefore I must dare to say that GR physical explanation of gravity may be wrong and as quantum mechanics concerns gravity to be a macroscopic offspring of quantum EM within matter.
Excellent Presentation. However, I still have big doubts about these colliders...they smash protons and all kinds of junk spews out. And then they measure it? tiniest things smaller than even a proton?
What if the properties of this "Higgs" field vary over distance and change over time? Would that not explain why our "little" patch of universe (and thus the laws of physics that we know and love) is perfect for our kind of matter and for us to exist? And why hasn't the physics community thought of this? #ItchyFeet
We have to look a little further, and give explainations for subatomic Higgs fields that are smart enough to produce things like DNA to life. There has to be varibles given first to things we can't explain, then work backwards. Since the Higgs Field is all connected, we have to assume it has a master intellegence, afterall its bigger than all mass. This filed has the power to "attempt" and complete escape into life cycles, explaining things like ESP, God and other unexplained energies. M=mc2+X
The assumptions used in this video fail to make any kind of coherent, logical explanation. This is not the presenter’s fault, though. The assumptions of the Higgs field are simply incorrect and physically illogical. To understand mass, you need to learn my unifying physics theory, matter theory, which supersedes and can easily replace all the current professionally used fundamental physics theories. I am seeking funding, and I am offering a monetary reward to the person who 1st introduces me to my eventual funder. Search keywords: matter theory marostica.
Thank you for a very lucid explanation. The other explanations I've run across have been watered down to the point of leaving essential questions unanswered. This video is excellent, because it manages to make sense without confusing those of us who are mathematically untutored. If I might suggest a question to be answered: What is the relationship, if any, between the Higgs field and the distortions of space-time that give rise to gravity? I have a guess, but it would be really nice to hear the answer from someone who actually knows!
So the higgs boson turns to different massive particles. But then how does the boson itself acquire mass? I think similarly to protons all massive particles get their mass from such mechanism. It's about energy. When something has mass it means there is some rest energy. In the case of a massive particle there could be this rest energy that emerges from the way the quantum field assigned to the particle is structured. When light travels through glass interference causes it to appear to slow down. The same way some interference within the field could cause the waves in this field to slow down. Anything traveling slower than light has a frame where it is at rest thus it will have rest energy.
does the higgs field account for how light particles are effected by gravity even though they are "massless" they behave as if they have mass. I believe its been ruled that light is both energy and mass.
Isn't the Higgs field just an unproven theory though.? Is this what the Hadron Collider is about?. Trying to find out how matter came to exist from energy?
I have a question: at about 13:00, you make the example of walking across the room, and being able to do so easily, yet when the room is half-filled with water, and you struggle because of the resistance of the water. I get that, but then you make the example of the fish being able to move about easily, while you, as a "large particle" meet this resistance. Would I be correct then, in interpreting that to mean that this has to do with the size of the field? That if the field were larger, (cont)
As an analogy, the field of water explains that effort is required to make a mass at rest in the field move, but the analogy doesn't work for a mass steady in motion. Ie it should account for its tendency to remain in motion. Basically, the analogy only works in one inertial frame. OK, it's an analogy. Also, just a comment, it feels wrong that Higgs particle itself has a mass. If it is the mechanism for mass, then it seems somewhat circular or recursive.
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.
If all matter can be expressed in terms of energy then we could say that the universe in theory can be all energy. However, energy on itself takes up no space, and something that exists no-where does not exist. This leads me to the conclusion that energy is a property of matter and it cannot be separated in practice. If this is true then Photons and other massless particles must have some mass in order to exist.
well not necessarily... Do not see the higgs field as a resistance field, see it as the field that created the earth in the first place. Without higgs field, no earth. Besides, gravitational pull of the sun and the elliptical (not spherical) orbit of the earth ensure that motion is kept at a relative steady pace. So even if the higgs field was a resistance, other forces (gravity) are greater. See it as a ball moving through water. But someone is pulling on the ball with a cord.
I have a question concerning our expanding universe and the higgs field and boson. Seen that the universe is expanding therefore meaning more volume is added each moment, does that mean that A. the Higgs field is stretching or does it mean that the higgs field is created. If it is expanding, does that have any influence in the interaction of particles (in the same way if you expand a rubber fishing net, the holes get bigger therefor bigger fish can pass through). Or... Please see next comment
As far as I know, it is Higgs, as I saw in Prof. Leonard Susskind's lecture but he told that as the top quarks combine to form the Higgs, it decays very quickly, almost 1.5 times faster than it is produced. This is not a normal rate according to the physicists, this could indicate the presence of any other undiscovered particle. I will leave the link in your channel comments, of that lecture.
Question. If they accelerate protons at the lhc to 99.999 % the speed of light in one direction, and the same in the opposite direction, do the protons collide at almost twice the speed of light, at the speed of light, or below but near the speed of light? Would the time dilation as predicted in Einstein's theory of relativity come into play and how would it affect the collision?
In the part of explaining if a massless particle has energy (ex: photon),then if and only if its speed must be c (to have gamma became infinity).I dont' agree this argument. I think there is no universal speed limit c. Why? If a massless particle has its speed > c, then sqrt [1- (v^2/c^2) ] is undefined, therefore gamma is underfined. So its energy is undefined, but different 0.
I have a question. So elementary particles which interact with the higgs field have a mass depending on how much they interact with it. And particles with mass interact gravitationally. And the more mass something has the more of a gravitational pull it has. So that must mean that the more something interacts with the higgs field the more gravitational pull it has. What about a particle interacting with the higgs field causes that particle to interact gravitationally?
At 9:05 you say that the field is two-dimensional, but then you draw a graph where "the field itself" is only one of the axes, potential energy (a scalar) is another, and the third (which must be occupied in order to sweep a 3D "mexican hat") is unnamed. Can you clarify this? Did you mean that the axis that was vertical in the video frame was V while the plane orthogonal to that axis represents the two dimensions of the Higgs field?
(continued from previous) thus surrounding the large particle, as it surrounds the fish, that the larger particle would also be able to move about easily? I question this, as obviously even if you were submerged in a swimming pool, you could not walk across the pool as easily as you could walk across the room.
Here's my idea. Instead of neutralizing the higgs field, BALANCE it. For example, let's a process can be induced on the ships exterior that allows the photons on it to travel like light. To maintain safe mass of the ship, just neutralize the ever increasing higgs field INSIDE the ship so that it maintains regular mass.
Or if new area is created (in the same way new rope is added to a fishing net to expand the surface area) doesnt that mean that new higgs bosons are added. And since bosons have mass... doesnt the law of the conservation of energy state that matter/energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Please clarify for me.... anyone.
I guess, that quarks have a higher chance to interact with the higgs field inside a proton than outside. Of course you can arguement with the quark confinement, but this dont explain the mass down to the lowest level: The Higgs Field. Maybe you could explain, what happens in the higgs field, when a proton "rides" thorugh it.
If i get this right, we all travel at the speed of light, but we are stuck inside the Higgs field, which makes us appear to be still, and makes us behave like we are still, therefore we have mass. So if in theory we could somehow neutralize the Higgs field arround us, we would achieve moving at the speed of light?
I have a few questions: If a particle has zero mass and does not interact with the field at all, why is it's velocity limited to 3*10^8 ms-1? Why is the 'maximum' speed any particle can go, ever, limited to this speed? Also, if the sub-atomic particles are the same size, what causes them to interact with the higgs field more? Very nice video, i have subscribed
Only 95% to be certain that you've found the Higgs boson? I thought to be certain of a discovery it had to be (1-3*10**-7) * 100 = 99.99997 percent certain (p = 0.0000003), aka "5 sigma". blogs.scientificamerican(.)com/observations/2012/07/17/five-sigmawhats-that/
Could any particle not interact with the higgs field but instead repel or push a higgs boson? If so, wouldn't it be impossible to measure the energy or mass of said particle as there are higgs bosons all over the place including inbetween the particle and the measuring device?
The photons on the ship can still remain stuck while their frequency can be intensified -- such as the intensity of radiation similar to a large explosion but without the explosion. And there you have it, the reason you see a lot of UFOs shine like the sun.
"The Higgs boson may not exist."
-DrPhysicsA 2012
A few months later:
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Greetings from the future! The disclaimer at the beginning of this video became irrelevant later in the same year it was made.
We've found it (or one of them). You cant actually find a Higgs Boson. What you look for are the decay products of the Higgs which have a slightly greater prominence that would otherwise be expected.
DrPhysicsA 2 actually, one at 124gev one at 126gev...
Is higgs boson found ? Dis lecture is quite old so I'm not sure ??
DrPhysicsA how many lactures of particle physics are all in total ?
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It's pretty amazing that this video predates the discovery of the Higgs boson, by just several months.
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No that's why scarecrows are such over achievers.
Just amazing explanations & pure teaching talent. Thank you.
It was postulated by Peter Higgs in 1964 and last year a Higgs like particle was discovered at the LHC. It has since been confirmed that it is a Higgs. The LHC was largely set up to do this. Now it goes on to further discoveries.
The Higgs field is everywhere and is mediated by the Higgs Boson (in the same way as a virtual photon mediates the electromagnetic force). The interaction of the various particles with the Higgs field determines whether they get mass. If they do, then they don't travel at the speed of light. Photons don't appear to interact with the Higgs field so they have no mass and consequently travel at the speed of light.
You might want to look at my 5 videos (each of about 10 mins) on Special Relativity for a more detailed explanation. The relative collision speed can never be greater than the speed of light. Each proton will see the other approaching at a relative speed greater than 99.999% but less than 100% of c.
Well to be strict about it, we have found a Higgs-like particle. Most people believe it is the Higgs but a bit more work is needed to confirm that this is definitely the case.
@FrankCoffman Good questions. Many of which don't have answers. But there is a similar thing to the Higgs field, in that it doesn't change its density as the universe expands, and that is vacuum energy or dark energy. Quite why it doesn't change its density as the universe extends we don't know.
maxpayne254"[..] what gives the higgs boson mass?" Its mates.
Now hand me that Nobel prize in physics. :-)
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Yeah.....I don't get it
Particles have mass because of a certain particle that has mass = circular reasoning
@@teachermichaelmaalim6103 There is a mathematical equation described how it gives mass. The equation also says that it's self interacting. Not circular.
Pretty sure it's due to it's oscillation in it's symmetry broken field.
I have put the videos in playlists and my recommended order of viewing is the order in the playlist. I am shortly about to do a new series on particle physics.
Your videos are the best I found on yt! Amazing explanations!!!
The Higgs Field φ is a complex field so it has a real and imaginary term. I just drew the real term in the 2D image, but the imaginary term (the axis I didnt draw) comes out of the paper. The vertical axis is the potential associated with the field.
Like most metaphors it only works if it works. Prof Brian Cox tells the story of how the Higgs was described to the politicians who were being asked to fund the LHC. Suppose there was a reception at a political conference. If I were to walk across the room no-one would stop me. I am a photon. But if the president/ prime minister were to walk in they would immediately be surrounded by all those wanting to talk to them and would be slowed down and gain "mass". It seemed to do the trick.
Well remember that the Higgs Field only gives mass to fundamental particles like quarks and electrons. It doesn't give mass to heavier particles eg protons or you and me. The gravitational attraction between 2 quarks will be very small, tho it must exist. But that is just because the quarks have mass and anything with mass exerts a gravitational force on something else with mass.
Great questions to which we do not know the answers. It is true that the Higgs field is everywhere in space. Higgs bosons however have very short lifetimes. If the recent discovery of the Higgs like particle is confirmed as the Higgs the method of detection was to look for the different types of particles into which the Higgs decays. So it appears to have gauge boson like qualities of being created and decaying in short time order.
No I didnt meant to imply that the Higgs and Dark energy are related. I just wanted to point out that dark energy (on which I have a separate video) is not density dependent, so the HIggs would not be alone in that regard.
why did you stop making videos sir
If you could stop the Higgs field from giving rise to mass you would stop the fundamental particles eg quarks from having mass. All fundamental particles would therefore travel at the speed of light. They wouldn't combine to become larger structures, eg protons and atoms. So there would be no material world.
That's about it. Basically the maths behind the standard model of elementary particles (not including the Higgs) says that none of them has mass. So a device had to be found to give them mass ie the Higgs mechanism. But there is no reason other particles eg the Higgs can't have mass not derived from a Higgs field.
Well not quite. As one of my other contributors has pointed out, what has actually been found is a Higgs-like particle. I think most informed people think it must be the Higgs but strictly at the moment it is only Higgs-like. More work needed to show it is actually THE Higgs.
If the recently discovered Higgs-like particle turns out to be the Higgs (and most people think it is) then it has a mass of 126GeV/c2 (which is roughly 126 times the mass of a proton). The next question of course is, what gives the Higgs its mass. And we don't know the answer to that.
Two very good questions to which we don't know answers. Maxwell's equations suggest a speed (which turns out to be the speed of light) which appears to be a universal speed limit. But why it should be that particular value is unknown. My vid on spec rel shows why its a limit. Since Higgs Field gives different fundamental particles different masses there must be some difference in their characteristics which interact with that field. Hopefully we'll learn more as work on the Higgs progresses.
The Higgs mechanism does not give mass to everything. It is just the mechanism which gives mass to the constituent particles of the standard model. The Higgs boson itself can have mass without the need for a Higgs field.
Sorry about that. I don't know why. I have just played it on my MacBook and it played OK including beyond 11:14. I can only suppose that there is a break at that point in the streaming from RUclips that may explain it.
Fundamental really means that there does not appear to be any constituent (or smaller) parts to the fundamental particles. It does not mean that they have no size.
1/1 = 1. 1/0.5 = 2. 1/0.05 = 20. 1/0.005 = 200. ie the smaller the denominator the larger the result. As the denominator approaches 0, the result approaches infinity.
It is my understanding that the existence of The Higgs has been confirmed at CERN
Jonn Kammeron - well this video was uploaded before the initial announcement. The LHC did discover a new particle that shows many of the signs predicted to be a higgs (parity, zero spin and decays in predicted ways) but truthfully work is still being done on it. It has been suggested that there may be more than one higgs.
I am using the notion that where y=1/x y will tend to infinity as x tends to 0. So xy=1. If y is nearly infinity and x is nearly zero.
Thnx 4 this amazing lecture 😊😊
Good point. I have amended the note. I was perhaps being a little previous.
At 8:26, wouldnt it be easier to explain the full equation: E^2 = (m*c^2)^2 + (p*c)^2 where p is the momentum of the photon, and when its massless the equation simplifies to E = pc. Great video by the way.
I think it best if I point you to a lecture on this by Prof Leonard Susskind. I cant put web addresses in a comment but if you search on Google for "Lecture 8 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model" you will find it. He covers the Higgs phenomena in some detail including the field and potential.
Gluons are thought to have no or very small mass. The question you might be asking is how can a proton have a mass of almost 1GeV when the mass of the 3 constituent quarks is nothing like that much. The remainder of the proton mass is due to the kinetic energy of the quarks and to the energy of the gluon fields that bind the quarks together. This is called quark confinement. In other words the energy associated with keeping quarks confined to the proton constitutes most of the proton mass.
I agree with BlueCosmology. The Higgs Mechanism gives mass to the fundamental particles (eg quarks). But the mass of a proton is hugely greater than the mass of its constituent parts and is generally attributable to what's called quark confinement ie restricting quarks to be confined within a proton.
Its thought to be a case of how quarks interact via the exchange of gluons. If you try to separate two quarks the energy between them increases until (before separation) there is enough energy for pair production of a quark and anti-quark. That's why you can't isolate a quark. Since energy and mass are the same thing E=mc2 it gives a clue about how confinement leads to mass.
5 is the ultimate electron
If you multiply the quarks
You will be able to make any mass
That's a question we haven't got the answer to yet. And it's a very good question. If the Higgs like particle discovered earlier this year is indeed the Higgs (and most people think it is) then it has a mass of about 125GeV. And yet it gives mass to fundamental particles like quarks, And the up quark has a mass of only 3MeV.
A puzzle indeed. The explanation is that a W boson can "borrow" energy (hence mass) for a very short time provided it is paid back. So a neutron can decay into a proton via a W- even tho the W- is 80 times larger than the neutron or proton
With the caveat that we always need to be careful how far we take an analogy, you are right. It is the nature of the Higgs field which gives fundamental particles their mass. If the field were different then particles might have more or less or no mass.
In essence, everything is energy and mass because of Einstein's equation E=mc squared. Light does not bend in a gravitational field because it has mass but rather because of the principle of equivalence.
I don't think yesterday's announcement takes us any further forward in relation to string theory. I guess string theorists assumed the existence of the Higgs anyway,
Good video. Must have been very exciting when it was discovered months later.
Thank you very much for all the spectacular videos. I appreciate it a lot.
I am a PGT{Physics). This lecture helped me very much in understanding different phenomenon in the universe.
What kind of phenomenon are you talking about, in a nutshell?
You havent reply mr. R u still alive? 😬🤔 since being a while
An electric field arises from some form of charged particle. The magnetic field arises from a magnet. the field represents the capability to impose a force on another charged particle under certain circumstances. I'm about to put up a video this week on electromagnetic radiation.
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the clearest explanation of quark confinement I have heard - thank you
It is not expected to do so.
bad explanation of mass due to Higgs field. Pop sci is always quick to invoke analogies like viscosity and friction through a medium, but that's nothing like the Higgs mechanism. The mass arises from the particle's confinement within the field; in order to accelerate spatially, the particle must devote some of the incoming energy to wiggling back and forth across that gutter in the potential first.
i like that description you give
It seems to work OK on my laptop. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
Thank you for your response - that answers my question.
If I may ask another: how is potential energy coupled to the Higgs field? For instance, gravity and the electric field interact with their respective charge particles via a well defined equations which calculate what force vectors will act on charges. This results in a potential field, as force through a distance is an act of work that tends to be done by the field in any given system. Does the Higgs field have such a relationship?
Is this a talented teacher here, or what?!!! OMG, what a gem!!!
Are the particles inherently different apart from their interaction with the Higgs field? Is there something unique with each particle type such that causes a unique value of interaction?
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Very interesting and good explained videos. Keep it up!
I’m no expert, but I don’ think that the idea of a “resting mass” exists. There is no ‘mass’ or ‘gravity’ outside of a centripetal or centrifugal spin of the aether field. And what Einstein calls “the speed of light” is really the speed of electromagnetic wave induction through the ZPE Aether field. (Just like Nikola Telsa, Steinmetz, and Maxwell said…)
That's what you think
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125.35 GeV
@15:30 if you Google it, it says the mass is 125GeV. That's pretty amazing that the scientists predicted a range of 100-500GeV and it turned out to be within that range. I hope they solve singularities and black holes in my lifetime!! So interesting...
Mass Higgs-field vector +Mu of the universe acting upon accelerating mass +/-m from a distance radius!
Time dilating inertial ref-frames are opposed motion simulating rest and balance now through violent motion
The locational spherical inward logarithmic absorption density and outward exponential emission density of electromagnetic waves is oscillating energy and mass, antimatter matter annihilation or input+0/1-output electric charge and EM-fields or resonance and interference as time unfolds!
W. Heisenberg, the father of particle accelerators call an end for them in 1975 when he realized that particle's are really Standing-Wave's!!!
Energy is motion.
All motion is spiral.
Big bang's 360, 24/7.
All direction is spherically curved.
It is the locational spherical inward absorption and outward emission density of electromagnetic waves thats forming antimatter input+0/1-output matter annihilation forming + and - electric charge, EM-fields, forward flow of time and all the forces of nature
The difficulty of finding it, something that "gives objects mass" portends a future discrediting. String theory, anyone?
All collections of atoms have mass.
- recall the relative ease of discovering spectral lines of the elements
- and recall the relative ease of discovering the electron
Physics is in deep trouble. Infinities/'renormalization', gravity vs. quantum theory, the nearly-impossible-to-find cause of mass, the 'graviton'
It means there is GREAT OPPORTUNITY.
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please do a tutorial on asymtopic freedom of quark's. thank you.
Hi ,
A particle moving in a transmission medium.
Kinetic energy of a particle ( charge) moving at the velocity of v has two different values:
Kinetic energy of a particle ( charge)
Tkin id =mc^2 [ln |1-v/c|+ (v/c) / (1-v/c) ] in direction of motion of a particle ( charge)
It is realy as Newton´s kinetic energy,
where v is velocity of a particle ( charge) .
Kinetic energy of a particle ( charge) Tkin ad = mc^2 [ln |1+v/c|- (v/c) / (1+v/c) ] against direction of motion of a particle ( charge)
It is realy as Maxwell´s electromagnetic wave energy,
where v is velocity of a particle ( charge).
Corrected Third Newton's law of motion :
All movements in physics are based on principle of action - reaction and on velocity of stable particles ( e-, p+,n0, D, He-3, α ).
Action, as a motion of stable charged particles ( e-, p+,n0, D, He-3, α ), is characterized speeds up in source along ellipse or quasi- elipse ( excentricity e -> 0 ).
Action creates unstable particles ( leptons μ−, τ−, baryons, mesons ), bosons W +, W-, Z (= particles = β electrons moving at nearly the speed of light )in direction of motion of stable particles ( e-, p+,n0, D, He-3, alfa ).
Reaction creates into transmission medium, the electromagnetic waves, as unstable “particles” - neutrínos νe, νμ, ντ , mesons π0, π+ , π- , η , K and gamma rays (=waves of extremely high frequency >1019 Hz ) - against direction of motion of stable particles ( e-, p+,n0, D, He-3, alfa ).
Accompanying activity of reaction on movement of stable particles in the transmission medium are waves, or “unstable particles“ respectively , i.e. neutrinos and mesons.
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Confirmation of the Theory Under Discussion Wave-Particle Duality as Kinetic Energy Against and in Direction of Motion in Discussion Group Theoretical Physics !!!! Eureka !!!!
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Einstein's Theory of Relativity Can not Explain ...
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Wave - Particle Duality as Kinetic Energy Against and In Direction of Motion.
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Improvement of Classical Physics
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Kinetic Energy According to Einstein and According the Latest Knowledge
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Form of Intensity of the Moving Charge Electric Field is Asymmetrical.
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Form of the Interference Field is Non-Linear
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Kinetic Energy of a Charge Moving at the Velocity of V Has Two Different Values
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Great Table of Elementary Particles
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ISBN 80-85665-64-6.
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Einstein's theory of relativity can not explain ...
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1. Movement principles of the fast-spinning pulsars, (vixra.org/pdf/1404.0238v1.pdf
Movement Principles of the Fast-Spinning Bodies )
2. Nuclear Fusion , ( vixra.org/pdf/1404.0130v1.pdf )
3. Wave - Particle Duality as Kinetic Energy Against and In Direction of Motion
4. the 4th Maxwell's equation, (2.38) in www.trendsinphysics.info/kniha/2-1.html#2-1-3
5. Lorentz equals without the help of Space-Time,
(2.23) - (2.27) in www.trendsinphysics.info/kniha/2-1.html#2-1-3
6.Confinement of quarks (vixra.org/pdf/1405.0307v1.pdf What is Quark? )
7. Great Table of Elementary Particles ( vixra.org/pdf/1404.0243v1.pdf )
8. Spectral line Hα ( vixra.org/pdf/1404.0248v1.pdf ň
9. Neutrino Oscillations ( vixra.org/pdf/1404.0369v1.pdf )
10. Form of the interference field must be non-linear. ( vixra.org/pdf/1411.0531v1.pdf )
11.Form of Intensity of the Moving Charge Electric Field must be asymmetrical.
( vixra.org/pdf/1411.0533v1.pdf )
12.Kinetic energy of a charge moving at the velocity of v has two different values:
Kinetic energy against direction of motion as wave Tkin ad = mc2 [ln |1+v/c|- (v/c)/(1+v/c)]
Kinetic energy in direction of motion as particle Tkin id = mc2 [ln|1-v/c|+ (v/c)/(1-v/c)]
( vixra.org/pdf/1411.0530v1.pdf , vixra.org/pdf/1405.0334v1.pdf , vixra.org/pdf/1409.0090v1.pdf Three Objections to Modern Physics )
13. Yukawa potential
1905 A.E. : Einstein ´s theory Tkin =mc^2 - mo c^2
1996: Tkin id =mc^2 [ln |1-v/c|+ (v/c) / (1-v/c) ]
Tkin ad = mc^2 [ln |1+v/c|- (v/c) / (1+v/c) ]
Einstein's theory works for v < 0.1c.
v/c.......Tkin ad .................Tkin id ...............Tkin (A.E.)
0.1..... 0.00439 mc^2...0.0057 mc^2....0.0050 mo c^2
0.2.....0.0156 mc^2.....0.0268 mc^2......0.0200 mo c^2
0.3.....0.0316 mc^2.....0.0719 mc^2......0.0480 mo c^2
0.4.....0.0508 mc^2.....0.1558 mc^2......0.0910 mo c^2
0.5.....0.0722 mc^2.....0.3068 mc^2......0.1550 mo c^2
0.6.....0.0950 mc^2.....0.5837 mc^2......0.2500 mo c^2
0.7.....0.1174 mc^2.....1.1293 mc^2.......0.4010 mo c^2
0.8.....0.1434 mc^2.....2.3905 mc^2......0.6670 mo c^2
0.9.....0.1680 mc^2.....6.6974 mc^2......1.2930 mo c^2
0.99...0.1906 mc^2....94.3948 m^c2.....6.9200 mo c^2
1……....0.1931 mc^2..........infinite....................infinite
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Why relativity works in some cases and fails in others ?
Like Newton's theory works for small speeds v
I'm note aware that there is any link between the two.
The deeper meaning the Higgs field gives answer to, is how elementary particles which exhibit by any means no gravity at all can have mass? In other words, no ever either theoretically or by experiment quantum gravity (i.e. gravity between elementary particles) was established or proven although an apparent mass is given to them by the Higgs field mechanism. Therefore I must dare to say that GR physical explanation of gravity may be wrong and as quantum mechanics concerns gravity to be a macroscopic offspring of quantum EM within matter.
Excellent Presentation. However, I still have big doubts about these colliders...they smash protons and all kinds of junk spews out. And then they measure it? tiniest things smaller than even a proton?
what is the source of the higgs field?
why does it persist?
we don't really know the source of any of the fields -- maybe it's the shape of many dimensions and how they fold together
What if the properties of this "Higgs" field vary over distance and change over time?
Would that not explain why our "little" patch of universe (and thus the laws of physics that we know and love) is perfect for our kind of matter and for us to exist?
And why hasn't the physics community thought of this?
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We have to look a little further, and give explainations for subatomic Higgs fields that are smart enough to produce things like DNA to life. There has to be varibles given first to things we can't explain, then work backwards. Since the Higgs Field is all connected, we have to assume it has a master intellegence, afterall its bigger than all mass. This filed has the power to "attempt" and complete escape into life cycles, explaining things like ESP, God and other unexplained energies. M=mc2+X
The assumptions used in this video fail to make any kind of coherent, logical explanation. This is not the presenter’s fault, though. The assumptions of the Higgs field are simply incorrect and physically illogical.
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Thank you for a very lucid explanation. The other explanations I've run across have been watered down to the point of leaving essential questions unanswered. This video is excellent, because it manages to make sense without confusing those of us who are mathematically untutored. If I might suggest a question to be answered: What is the relationship, if any, between the Higgs field and the distortions of space-time that give rise to gravity? I have a guess, but it would be really nice to hear the answer from someone who actually knows!
With the time
So the higgs boson turns to different massive particles. But then how does the boson itself acquire mass?
I think similarly to protons all massive particles get their mass from such mechanism. It's about energy. When something has mass it means there is some rest energy. In the case of a massive particle there could be this rest energy that emerges from the way the quantum field assigned to the particle is structured. When light travels through glass interference causes it to appear to slow down. The same way some interference within the field could cause the waves in this field to slow down. Anything traveling slower than light has a frame where it is at rest thus it will have rest energy.
does the higgs field account for how light particles are effected by gravity even though they are "massless" they behave as if they have mass. I believe its been ruled that light is both energy and mass.
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Isn't the Higgs field just an unproven theory though.?
Is this what the Hadron Collider is about?. Trying to find out how matter came to exist from energy?
I have a question: at about 13:00, you make the example of walking across the room, and being able to do so easily, yet when the room is half-filled with water, and you struggle because of the resistance of the water. I get that, but then you make the example of the fish being able to move about easily, while you, as a "large particle" meet this resistance. Would I be correct then, in interpreting that to mean that this has to do with the size of the field? That if the field were larger, (cont)
As an analogy, the field of water explains that effort is required to make a mass at rest in the field move, but the analogy doesn't work for a mass steady in motion. Ie it should account for its tendency to remain in motion. Basically, the analogy only works in one inertial frame. OK, it's an analogy.
Also, just a comment, it feels wrong that Higgs particle itself has a mass. If it is the mechanism for mass, then it seems somewhat circular or recursive.
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.
If all matter can be expressed in terms of energy then we could say that the universe in theory can be all energy. However, energy on itself takes up no space, and something that exists no-where does not exist. This leads me to the conclusion that energy is a property of matter and it cannot be separated in practice. If this is true then Photons and other massless particles must have some mass in order to exist.
well not necessarily... Do not see the higgs field as a resistance field, see it as the field that created the earth in the first place. Without higgs field, no earth. Besides, gravitational pull of the sun and the elliptical (not spherical) orbit of the earth ensure that motion is kept at a relative steady pace. So even if the higgs field was a resistance, other forces (gravity) are greater. See it as a ball moving through water. But someone is pulling on the ball with a cord.
I have a question concerning our expanding universe and the higgs field and boson. Seen that the universe is expanding therefore meaning more volume is added each moment, does that mean that A. the Higgs field is stretching or does it mean that the higgs field is created. If it is expanding, does that have any influence in the interaction of particles (in the same way if you expand a rubber fishing net, the holes get bigger therefor bigger fish can pass through). Or... Please see next comment
As far as I know, it is Higgs, as I saw in Prof. Leonard Susskind's lecture but he told that as the top quarks combine to form the Higgs, it decays very quickly, almost 1.5 times faster than it is produced. This is not a normal rate according to the physicists, this could indicate the presence of any other undiscovered particle.
I will leave the link in your channel comments, of that lecture.
Question. If they accelerate protons at the lhc to 99.999 % the speed of light in one direction, and the same in the opposite direction, do the protons collide at almost twice the speed of light, at the speed of light, or below but near the speed of light? Would the time dilation as predicted in Einstein's theory of relativity come into play and how would it affect the collision?
In the part of explaining if a massless particle has energy (ex: photon),then if and only if its speed must be c (to have gamma became infinity).I dont' agree this argument.
I think there is no universal speed limit c.
Why?
If a massless particle has its speed > c, then sqrt [1- (v^2/c^2) ] is undefined, therefore gamma is underfined. So its energy is undefined, but different 0.
I have a question. So elementary particles which interact with the higgs field have a mass depending on how much they interact with it. And particles with mass interact gravitationally. And the more mass something has the more of a gravitational pull it has. So that must mean that the more something interacts with the higgs field the more gravitational pull it has. What about a particle interacting with the higgs field causes that particle to interact gravitationally?
At 9:05 you say that the field is two-dimensional, but then you draw a graph where "the field itself" is only one of the axes, potential energy (a scalar) is another, and the third (which must be occupied in order to sweep a 3D "mexican hat") is unnamed. Can you clarify this? Did you mean that the axis that was vertical in the video frame was V while the plane orthogonal to that axis represents the two dimensions of the Higgs field?
down the rabbit hole I go...it just seems that the more I learn to more paranoid I become and start thinking that were in the movie thirteenth floor.
(continued from previous) thus surrounding the large particle, as it surrounds the fish, that the larger particle would also be able to move about easily? I question this, as obviously even if you were submerged in a swimming pool, you could not walk across the pool as easily as you could walk across the room.
Here's my idea.
Instead of neutralizing the higgs field, BALANCE it. For example, let's a process can be induced on the ships exterior that allows the photons on it to travel like light. To maintain safe mass of the ship, just neutralize the ever increasing higgs field INSIDE the ship so that it maintains regular mass.
Or if new area is created (in the same way new rope is added to a fishing net to expand the surface area) doesnt that mean that new higgs bosons are added. And since bosons have mass... doesnt the law of the conservation of energy state that matter/energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Please clarify for me.... anyone.
I guess, that quarks have a higher chance to interact with the higgs field inside a proton than outside. Of course you can arguement with the quark confinement, but this dont explain the mass down to the lowest level: The Higgs Field.
Maybe you could explain, what happens in the higgs field, when a proton "rides" thorugh it.
If i get this right, we all travel at the speed of light, but we are stuck inside the Higgs field, which makes us appear to be still, and makes us behave like we are still, therefore we have mass. So if in theory we could somehow neutralize the Higgs field arround us, we would achieve moving at the speed of light?
I have a few questions:
If a particle has zero mass and does not interact with the field at all, why is it's velocity limited to 3*10^8 ms-1?
Why is the 'maximum' speed any particle can go, ever, limited to this speed?
Also, if the sub-atomic particles are the same size, what causes them to interact with the higgs field more?
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Only 95% to be certain that you've found the Higgs boson? I thought to be certain of a discovery it had to be (1-3*10**-7) * 100 = 99.99997 percent certain (p = 0.0000003), aka "5 sigma". blogs.scientificamerican(.)com/observations/2012/07/17/five-sigmawhats-that/
Could any particle not interact with the higgs field but instead repel or push a higgs boson?
If so, wouldn't it be impossible to measure the energy or mass of said particle as there are higgs bosons all over the place including inbetween the particle and the measuring device?
The photons on the ship can still remain stuck while their frequency can be intensified -- such as the intensity of radiation similar to a large explosion but without the explosion.
And there you have it, the reason you see a lot of UFOs shine like the sun.