Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the Higgs boson particle

Appearing on the 100th edition of The Infinite Monkey Cage, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson uses a Hollywood party analogy to explain the Higgs boson particle. Watch the full programme here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06d...

[@georgearthern2163]

This is by far the best explanation I’ve heard on this.

[@thesubhumancomedy]

If not deGrasse, whem? We need more space are you spaceman, but aha. People that know, that wants to teach. Teach our children about space, how to go there. and with whome.

[@georgearthern2163]

@@thesubhumancomedy whatever drugs you are on does not help you with coherent English!

[@Ronald-ob1eh]

@@thesubhumancomedy shut up nerd

[@amritsingh7389]

Crazy how he can explain something that’s so complicated in a simple way that even a 5 year old kid could understand

[@umaiswani7532]

All because his physics is actually for 5 y/o

[@Heaven351]

​​@@umaiswani7532 aleast someone understood . This analogy of crowding of people is wrong compared to the actual concept of higgs field . Another example that of moasless analogy. These ideas are for kids not for scientific minds .

[@cate01a]

I mean you get a basic idea of generally sort of what its about which is great but its so surface level its unhelpful I find So from this I can just understand "higgs boson is some property in each atom etc that somehow determines how much/whether its "host atom" has mass. The mass that would be gained is gained through some "field" Like hooray I can give a basic but probably largely deceiving little description, but I do not understand what that means or the implications of it. Kinda like if the question was "how does rain appear from thin air" and the answer was "well think of it like the rain water is inside of the air but the rain water wont show itself unless the air tells it to" -- a general basic simple description that is unhelpful from being vastly oversimplified "alright fuckhead if you want to learn about the higgs boson youll need to go through 10 years of learning advanced physics. noone can describe such a complex topic to an idiot like you with such little time and context" -- I don't think so; as einstein (supposedly) said, if you cant explain something to a 5 year old you don't understand it enough

[@rubixcode4880]

the fact that I still didnt understand is an insult to the human brain

[@peepdawg8995]

@@umaiswani7532 This is a famous analogy that was used by physicists to explain the higgs fields to the general population. its not on point but it's quite a good analogy

[@MIKEYC]

This made more sense to me in 30 seconds than the entire TED video.

[@ObiTheHomie]

Same bro

[@KamanquaMusic]

Brooo…fr

[@gautamghosh5303]

Same here😂

[@abhiraamsadasivan6308]

istg

[@johnmosha]

This is the Best explanation of higgs field ever. Thanks NTD

[@michael-white94]

I disagree.

[@guadalupebon2919]

@@michael-white94 so you just gonna leave us hanging for over 3 months huh?

[@stev6963]

NDT** Neil Degrasse Tyson. Not Neil Tyson Degrasse. 😉😊

[@mahir__2589]

This explanation was given by cern to politicians in order to get them a feel for higgs boson not by Neil

[@GaryYates-pi9gy]

@@stev6963 - Dat reminds me that I must go out and mow deGrasse!😆

[@abrahmlinkinpark]

His joke literally made me 'lol'. Clever!

[@frederik8936]

SILENCE BOOMER

[@benmfitz]

@@frederik8936 ok boomer

[@9razzler9]

me too! i went "LOL"

[@Johnnyboy200406]

It’s not his joke though….. it’s the sciencecomedian’s joke just like he curtain tailed Carl Sagan he is stealing jokes now 😂

[@benedibrava]

God particle is the discovery of the last 100 years humanity is giving a 360 degree turn to what humanity already knew

[@sherio.8401]

He’s such a good teacher.

[@larrybethune3909]

He might have been then, but he's a bonehead now.

[@MistaP13]

@@larrybethune3909Bonehead? How so?

[@thecubephile]

You see, I consider it to be the other way around. If you're a celebrity, then people will make way for you, while a normal person will have to struggle through the crowd.

[@anthonycraig274]

When dad jokes meets physics.

[@kbabhimitra]

in other videos, I read that. Light Particles don't have mass because they don't interact with Higgs Boson. considering the explanation they might be interacting with some other particle. wt is that?

[@vextronx]

Not the Higgs boson, but the Higgs field. The Higgs boson is a particle produced by the excitation of the field. It proves it exists. But yeah, maybe light passes through another field. But then, maybe everything that passes through the Higgs field passes through that field too.

[@kbabhimitra]

@@vextronx I thought Plural to Higgs Boson is Higgs Field. like Higgs Bosons exist everywhere so it is called a Field. I am not talking passing through, I am talking about passing through with interaction or not.

[@vextronx]

​@@kbabhimitra Ah, I see, my bad, sorry.

[@KnockoutInvesting]

@@kbabhimitra no interaction hence no mass for photons.

[@halkhan6943]

Great explanation in layman terms! 👏🏼

[@Vincent-li8rx]

Great analogy 👌👌👌

[@Jason-fg9wn]

That was excellent.

[@XX6-JX9]

I learned and got quite a giggle on the joke. who said science and church does not add up. the approach was well thought even the priest smiled as a sense to point out they agree with Mr.Neil De Grasse Tyson explanation.

[@HusseinMoghnieh]

Simply the best!!!

[@Shutup678]

I was on a train once by myself going to nc and a lady that sat next to me was goin on about how scientist are opening the gates to hell and letting demons out she was talking bout the hadron collider and I’ve never met a crazier person in my life I’m 21 and still think about this I was like 14 at the time trying to zone out the rambling of a loon hard times I’ll be honest

[@MrPropaMusic]

What if I told you yea she was crazy but not completely wrong. No gates to hell but opening up portals yes

[@lookeshdas455]

Partly correct, it would definitely be opening up portals but to where that's unknown, maybe the unknown, unseen realm?

[@Lady_A.R.Browne]

THE DEFINITION TO CRAZY IS SUBJECTIVE. YOU APPARENTLY MAY NOT BE AWARE OF HER WARNINGS AND INSIGHTS AS WELL AS SHE MAY BE UNAWARE OF WHY YOU'VE SUMMED HER UP AS LOONEY. ONE OF THE DISCIPLINES TO LEARNING IS TO LISTEN AND ANALYZE. NO MATTER WHAT IT IS. YOU CAN TEST ALL THINGS.

[@lookeshdas455]

@@Lady_A.R.Browne what are you trying to say Sir

[@Lady_A.R.Browne]

@@lookeshdas455 NOT TO YOU. THE POST FROM THE 21 YEAR OLD WHO SAID HE HAS NEVER MET A CRAZIER PERSON... I WASN'T ADDRESSING YOU.

[@allenleroy9109]

I said “LOL”out loud lol.

[@YoungoneYoung-lm4xe]

MIC DROP!!

[@averitiamiku]

Higgs boson walks into a church Church: nuh uh be gone Higgs boson: alr lemme take away all ur mass then just like how god created you i created your mass

[@HimanshuSharma-oy9ss]

Its not a joke but a pun.

[@ElrondMcBong.]

it's a joke where the punchline is a pun. things can be two things at the same time.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

So the Higgs boson gives particles their mass. But this is inertial mass, that allows them to carry momentum and transfer it in collisions etc. According to General Relativity, gravitational mass (the source of the gravitational field) and inertial mass are the same thing. So is the Higgs boson the source of gravity as well?

[@LearnoPhile-xy8om]

This is not a science channel

[@itzsynthetical4477]

The Higgs boson itself is just an excitation of the Higgs Field. It doesn't really do anything (except decay which is how it was "discovered"). The interaction between specific particles and the Higgs _Field_ is what actually gives them a rest mass. The overwhelming majority of the mass in baryonic matter actually comes from the Strong Nuclear Force holding the nucleons together, so mass as we see it has two sources. I'm not a physicist so I have a rudimentary understanding of this, but it's thought that at high enough energy levels (above the threshold where the electromagnetic and weak force unify into the electroweak force), the symmetry breaking in the Higgs Mechanism doesn't occur, meaning that all fundamental particles masses are zero, however the gravitational field doesn't just vanish. Gravity still exists because even when particles have zero mass, they still have energy. The presence of energy stresses and distorts spacetime. Mass is just a specific form of energy and neither the Higgs Field or Strong Force Interaction is responsible for all energy. So no, the Higgs field is not the source of gravity. There are hypothetical particles like the Graviton that would mediate the gravitational interaction but there is no experimental evidence for their existence yet.

[@glassjawdeathclaw4176]

That joke was hilarious

[@ranarazzaque80]

❤❤

[@manojkumar-qn3mw]

Neil the grass Tyson s/o Vivekanand passwan D-304, West vinod nagar Delhi 92 Anil Kumble s/o APJ Abdul Kalam Manju hai

[@ejlare]

Goodbye Dr Peter Higgs, have a wonderful trip across the universe

[@snufnik]

Social Economics of the Higgs Boson Field

[@suyapajimenez516]

Love it

[@inuka6969]

The 144P Quality man.

[@NichaelCramer]

I’m sorry, but while this attempt at an explanation is quite popular/famous (other versions use Angelina Jolie or Margaret Thatcher as the person crossing the room) it actually explains nothing (or, more accurately to the extent it explains anything it’s wrong -or at least terribly misleading). For anyone looking for a much better (but still accessible) description of what’s actually going on with the Higgs field might I suggest Matt Strassler’s wonderful book “Waves in an Impossible Sea”.

[@samwoods7879]

ok yeah but what is it

[@whoneedsanation]

remember that story about him getting touchy with a chick? I think it was some wrestler's wife

[@HazimbinMdYusof]

i dont get the joke , someone explain to me

[@kratosgodslayer6171]

Every thing is created by Higgs Boson.

[@raji08xd68]

@@kratosgodslayer6171 .. and, another meaning of the word 'mass' is the central act of worship of the Roman Catholic Church. That's the pun in this context :p

[@flakron2489]

and also the higgs boson particle is also called the god particle xD

[@user-lc4qe4gr7k]

Without me you can't have mass !!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@NotNahtan]

The Higgs what? Why do you pronounce it that way

[@pastry111]

Diggs bossums

[@CVBrennan]

Your explanation is a bar joke. I admire Dr. Tyson more and more everyday. This is a pretty funny clip.

[@Richard-cq4kv]

Neil, if you're going to explain Higgs bosons, you're going to have to explain how 0+0=1 first, good luck.

[@FACEXCALIBUR]

Two of anything put together makes one. There you have it. It’s a set.

[@Richard-cq4kv]

@@FACEXCALIBUR 🏆

[@duoko98]

either: A you and I don’t get the standard model well enough, B intuitively the standard model has errors (which science knows it does it’s just the best we have yet), AND C you and I clearly don’t understand exactly HOW the Higgs Field exists and gives things mass… cuz intuitively how can the Higgs field a assign a mass to a particle where that mass is greater than the Higgs Field component (Higgs Boson)…. Physics is such a mystery and I feel like our way of looking at it is like we’re looking at the components inside the simulation but if you could have some sort of God logic of speaking through the order and story of the Quantum Field you could arrive at all the simple statements about transformations of reality like (An object can rotate 45 degrees) by just understanding this sort of this Godly view of the mechanics of the simulation itself and properties of interactions of various Field components… like instead of God said let there be light God encoded the statement (An object can observe the phenomenon of mass through these field interactions in this way everywhere in the field itself and when we in here in the reality study it we just see particle interactions and their mechanics) obviously I don’t think this idea is objectively legit but it’s just the idea behind it lol

[@kennethgengler2094]

Niels is NOT gay.

[@TomFoolery_Escobar]

Neil cute tho

[@AT-dl3ru]

I like the way this atheist just hijacks professor David Miller's analogy and flouts it as his own. I would say I'm surprised but I'd be lying

[@jamesmacdonald5556]

How do we know they are not faking the data?

[@dondottaa1682]

James MacDonald scientists tend to question everything they do, maybe they made a mistake or maybe it was a fluke. So they check their work millions of time, and they also have peers/colleagues who are also scientists that or probably skeptical because they are all are trying to be the first, so they check their work. Many other scientists most likely check their work and figure out it was all true.

[@acutebutdangerouspickle38]

@@dondottaa1682 yup and what do they even get for faking the information? Like It's a waste of time spending hours upon hours just to fake it.

[@IBleedBolts]

You try to get TWO men to agree where to land in Fortnite or WarZone, then come back and tell us how thousands of scientists could be in on the fake data.

[@michaelmurray8416]

I’m definitely a Higgs boson! I’m not popular at parties and Churches don’t approve of me!

[@blakekemak2340]

So is this why we called ourselves gods back in time due to us figuring out mass means a god particle is involved and since we have mass would equate to having some sort of god particle in us?

[@joeytribbiani5690]

The nickname was meant to poke fun at how difficult it was to detect the particle.The story goes that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman referred to the Higgs as the "Goddamn Particle. It was difficult to detect the particle. It took nearly half a century and a multi-billion dollar particle accelerator to do it

[@blakekemak2340]

@Joey Tribbiani Learn something new every day. Thanks for that.

[@kbabhimitra]

1:17 joke would have been better if it also referred to the concept instead of just a word game.

[@jdad8726]

Yeah I still don't get it

[@jr5389]

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[@searchgoogle786]

He is one of the exceptions in the sense that physicists are bad at teaching.

[@marviwilson1853]

So is he trying to say that Beyonce is fat?!

[@nowherebeans]

neil and tarantino talk the same they have so much energy but talk slow

[@charles5697]

Y do some particles like the ‘Beyoncé’ attract more mass then

[@saqib..]

He really dumb it down for us.

[@ArtofLunatik]

Sick burn

[@WhateverIwannaupload]

lol his joke was taken as a jab.

[@Skynet_the_AI]

🦉

[@Heliosphan33]

It’s a joke. But he didn’t explain anything.

[@IneffablePanther]

OHHH I have to like this video it was posted the day I was born. * Rule #3 of KZbin

[@jerrypolverino6025]

Haaaaaaaa

[@domcrisen3548]

He never fails to deliver a good joke.. Neil deGrasse Tyson really is a commedian nothing more.

[@beelzebootthecanadiandevil9600]

Bs. He's a terrible comedian, but he's a pretty good hypnotist.

[@stephenking5852]

It’s more funny when you realize the Higgs boson is also known as the God Particle.

[@jonwii157]

He said without Allah you can't have bass.lol wwjd

[@jonwii157]

It's called deciphering and the Higgs boson isn't what it appears to be

[@larrybethune3909]

But any particle can be a Higgs simply by feeling like one right? As of this week Tyson has a near infinite imbecile mass.

[@2gointruth]

“Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbour as yourself. I am the Lord.” - (Leviticus 19: 18) - So we must never worship and pray in the way of religions; not even that of the Pope or Christianity, because we learn that religions are all led by the many false prophets who continue to mislead us. When Jesus alone (in the name of Immanuel) is the Son of man and the true Prophet who was sent by the Lord God, to be always our one Teacher… “I will raise up for them a prophet like you [Moses] from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth.” - (at Deuteronomy 18: 18) - “Our God is a God who saves us, in the Lord God’s hand lies escape from death.” - (Psalm 68: 20) - “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign: A young woman is with child, and she will bear a son, and will call him Immanuel.” [“God is with us”] - (The Prophet Isaiah 7: 14) - “If you have ears to hear, then hear.” - (Jesus, in the name of Immanuel, the Messiah, at Mark 4: 23) - “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” - (Jesus, at John 4: 24) - “In truth I tell you, anyone who gives heed to what I say and puts his trust in him who sent me, has hold of eternal life and does not come up for judgement, but has already passed from death to life.” - (at John 5: 24) - “Beware of false prophets, men who come to you dressed up as sheep while underneath they are savage wolves. You will recognize them by the fruits they bear.” - (at Matthew 7: 15-16) - “Do not call any man on earth ‘father’; for you have one Father and he is in heaven. Nor must you be called ‘teacher’; you have one Teacher, the Messiah.” - (Matthew 23: 9-10) - “Take care that no one misleads you: For many will come claiming my name…” - (Jesus, at Matthew 24: 4) - “Many false prophets will arise, and will mislead many; and as lawlessness spreads, men’s love for one another will grow cold. But the man who holds out to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the Kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the earth as a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come.” - (Matthew 24: 11-14) - “I am the way; I am the truth and I am life; no one comes to the Father except by me. If you knew me you would know my Father too.” - (John 14: 6-7) - “When you pray, go into a room by yourself, and shut the door. 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For as you judge others, so you will yourselves be judged, and whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you.” - (Matthew 7: 1-2) - “Truly I tell you; if anyone obeys my teaching he shall never know what it is to die.” - (John 8: 51) - “Always treat others as you would like them to treat you: that is the Law and the Prophets. Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life and only a few find it.” - (Matthew 7: 12-14) - “I am the gate; anyone who comes into the fold through me shall be safe. He shall go in and out and shall find pasturage. The thief comes only to steal, to kill, to destroy; I have come that men may have life, and may have it in all its fullness.” - (John 10: 9-10) - “I am the resurrection and I am life. 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