The Higgs Boson, Part I
The Higgs Boson. What more need be said? Two more Higgs videos coming soon. Also, explore a map of the big bang! http://www.bigbangregistry.com Theory of Everything video - http://bit.ly/yEj0xG...
==========
Let's cut to the chase: as of July 4, 2012, the Higgs Boson is the last fundamental pieceof the Standard Model of Particle Physics to be discovered experimentally. "But," youmight ask, "why was the Higgs Boson included in the Standard Model alongside well-knownparticles like electrons and photons and quarks if it hadn't been discovered back then inthe 1970s?" Good question. There are two main reasons:First, just like the electron is an excitation in the electron field, the Higgs boson issimply a particle which is an excitation of the everywhere-permeating Higgs field. TheHiggs field, in turn, plays an integral role in our model for radioactive decay, calledthe weak nuclear force (in particular, the Higgs field help...
==========
Let's cut to the chase: as of July 4, 2012, the Higgs Boson is the last fundamental pieceof the Standard Model of Particle Physics to be discovered experimentally. "But," youmight ask, "why was the Higgs Boson included in the Standard Model alongside well-knownparticles like electrons and photons and quarks if it hadn't been discovered back then inthe 1970s?" Good question. There are two main reasons:First, just like the electron is an excitation in the electron field, the Higgs boson issimply a particle which is an excitation of the everywhere-permeating Higgs field. TheHiggs field, in turn, plays an integral role in our model for radioactive decay, calledthe weak nuclear force (in particular, the Higgs field help...
