why was it so important?
>>16811358Y u massies so slow. KEK! -- Le Photon
Higgs never called it "the god particle". He wanted to call his book "the god damned particle", and the publisher changed it to "the god particle". This is where it came from.>>16811358It gives things mass.
>>16811378I forgot, it's the only known particle without spin.
Can these be isolated and used to power devices in place of electrons?
>>16811358It's discovery verified the existence of the Higgs field. Contrary to popular belief: it's not the source of all mass, nor does it simply "slow down" massive particles.As for mass: most is actually the potential energy stored in composite particles and has little to do with any Higgs interaction. As for speed: as objects travel through the Higgs field, energy from the field is imparted on the moving object. This results in an effective increase in mass which means it requires more energy to accelerate further. For the same reason, a faster object is harder to slow down as more of this "Higgs energy" must be sapped from the moving body.So while the Higgs field isn't necessarily responsible for mass in the relitivistic sense, it is resonsible for inertia which for most purposes can be conflated with mass without issue.
>>16811358It was the very last piece of the Standard Model, that had been predicted mathematically in the 70s, but needed for tech to catch up to verify it in the lab. It was cool, but was all but confirmed before the official announcement. On the one hand, it was great b/c it showed the Model to be correct within itself, but it was also the last new/novel insight into the "field"(get it?), and the "Particle Physics" crowd has been stuck for the last 50 years, or so. The Standard Models works very well for many things, but we know it's not 100% correct under all conditions, but nobody knows how to fix it, or even where to start. String Theory seems to be a bust. The colliders are just giant welfare projects, now that the Higgs has been confirmed. We still have absolutely no idea what gravity is fundamentally, but we understand it "well enough" to do cool stuff, which is all some folks care about.
>>16811358Because they love patting themselves on the back
>>16811358It proved God exists by finding a trace of him manipulating reality, hence God particle.
>>16811735isn't this just a lack of creativity on the end of physicists? when weak interactions were first found, electroweak theory was formed. it predicted (correctly) a z-boson (discovered decades later), and an associated higgs boson to give these gauge bosons mass (discovered many decades later). meanwhile today we have all these new excited results, and none of the theories seem as elegant or testable.
>>16815919Is that why your traces are called the gay particles?
>>16815925it is weird they could figure out nuclear bombs in the 1940s without knowing how mass and inertia workedseems like they must have a really hard time getting yields correct
>>16816190>he thinks nukes are real
>>16816180Those are farticles
>>16815925We're waiting for your preprint, faggot.
>>16811358it wasn't
>>16811358Ah yes, the Higg's "Bo-zone"......That's where OP goes to meet his male lovers on the weekends....and weekdays.
Higg's Bozo
>>16811378>It gives things massHow does a proton with three quarks with relatively little mass gain so much mass from the gluon binding, how would that increase mass if the higgs particle is responsible for mass.
>>16817936https://youtu.be/JqNg819PiZY?t=40m>how would that increase mass E=mc2 <=> m=E/c2
