Higgs Boson - Sixty Symbols

Our slightly belated video about the Higgs Boson.
With Ed Copeland, Tony Padilla, and Roger Bowley
A (very much) extended version of these interviews has been posted at our nottinghamscience channel - • Higgs Boson (extended ...
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[@Oafing]

I like how you get all the physicists to explain what it is and show them together. Not everyone explains it in a way that's understandable but someone always does.

[@Gungus-v1g]

Brad Pitt analogy: Me - " Ohhhh, I kinda get it now! " Angry Old Guy " *_THAT'S NOT IT AT ALL!!_* " Me - :(

[@tuneboyz5634]

Its ok

[@thelowmein9143]

Guy in the blue chair is like, "I'm done trying to explain this stuff to you you tube dummies" lol.

[@YuzuruA]

yeah, but I kinda think he is right... my physics book had some "simple" explanations of the heisenberg principle, but the problem is that it was wrong and gave you the wrong idea that the heisenberg principle is originated from experimental difficulties.

[@tiny_toilet]

​@@YuzuruA That's quite different. There's a Moriarty video where he ably explains the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle very elegantly and within only a matter of minutes to KZbin dummies. If, given a reasonable amount of time, you are unable to explain something in plain language to an intelligent but non-expert audience, I say it's because you lack an intuitive understanding yourself. And that's fine. With respect to some of these fundamental mechanisms, no one really has any level of understanding beyond abstract models, and it wouldn't be surprising if it turned out that some of these cases exceed the very capabilities of the human imagination.

[@8beef4u]

@@tiny_toilet Richard Feynman basically said this. I don't think I agree with it in principle. It seems to assume anything is explainable in a simple way. Ask Andrew Wiles to explain his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in a simple way. He obviously understands it, but there are indeed some things where no simple analogy exists.

[@shwee7]

It's always refreshing when you hear a physicist say that math is frightening

[@brassmonkey555]

There are so many educational channels on youtube, but this is the one channel that consistently teaches me something new and keeps me interested with each update.

[@metadaptation]

oh man! absolutely great, just finished my last final, and i get to watch a solid hour (this, plus the extended!) of sixtysymbols, christmas definitely came early, thank you Brady!

[@alcapwned86]

Mass and energy can be converted into one another using the formula E=mc^2, so the mass was converted into the energy of the photons. As for your 2nd question, the particle may be rare but the field is always there (but, from what I gather, it's far more difficult to detect the field than it is to create and detect a particle). Like they said, the particles are fluctuations in the field, but you need a lot of energy to produce fluctuations large enough to create a Higgs particle.

[@mos277]

saw this video on my youtube homepage and got so excited

[@oneshotki11]

"Recondite"- I had to look up the word he used to explain to us that it was unexplainable. Thank you for a tleast expanding my vocabulary. LoL

[@arik9112]

Profesor Ed has a really calming voice

[@GuyInAChair3]

There was a time in my life where I thought it would be great to be a physicist. Then after entering university, I discovered the maths were at times beyond my comprehension, so I got my degree in a less math oriented science. There are times where I wonder why I didn't pursue physics instead, then I watch videos like this and am forced to relive the nightmare of noncommutative geometry, which I failed with flying colors.

[@m00niee]

Love you sixtysymbols!

[@مسعدالشعب]

my favorite 3 professors! Thanks Brady for keeping prof Bowley in! :)

[@LegosAndBeer]

@pjn2001 I'm not a physicist or anything like that but i would say that if you apply a torsion force to an end of the rod you are applying it at one single point. The reason why the entire rod rotates and not only that point is because the particles that make it are all attached and atracted thought electrostatic forces and so they have to follow each other in the movement.

[@U014B]

6:45 Brob Pitt? I loved him in Fight Cloud!

[@Kavetrol]

+Noel Goetowski First rule of Fight Cloud is you do not talk about Fight Cloud.

[@sedwarg]

the unified field is such an abstract-esque concept

[@Clayphish]

Brady, I gotta say what is said lots of times. You ask some of the best questions!

[@antonc81]

It's explained elegantly enough in the maths. Particle physics and quantum physics are so different to our daily experience that our very language is not suited to describing some of these concepts adequately. The best we can do is create imperfect analogies to sort of explain some aspects of certain mechanisms.

[@Eliphas_Leary]

Damn you, Brady! I wanted to do something else, but now I have to sit throuh almost 13 minutes of one of your extremely interesting videos, looking foreward to watch that long video with extra footage from this one hereafter. Why can't you just make less excellent videos like everybody else does? WHY?

[@poonhounds2]

if i watch this over and over again, will i get it?

[@HiAdrian]

@JossJossJoss1 Yes. Photons are neither waves nor particles, but can show characteristics of either depending on how you probe/measure/observe them. We're describing a phenomenon that can't be fully appreciated through the language of our macroscopic experience. As Ted Stevens would say: "[...] the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes."

[@deldarel]

what he ment is "if you can't teach this easily, you don't unterstand it well enough."

[@ToxicBassUK]

How exciting!

[@mythofechelon]

I'm glad the religious controversy was left out of this video. Tastefully and tactfully filmed, Brady. I salute you with my very best hat!

[@bi1iruben]

@shaurz The higgs boson (particle) is not what gives everything else mass, it is the field that permiates the universe and how other particles interact, or not, with this. In the analagy of film star being impeded walking through a room of fans, the higgs boson might be likened to a particular chapter of the fan club standing together as a group with their identical T-shirts - the group is easier to see than the movement of the background crowd, but without a lot of effort the group dissipates.

[@1KevinsFamousChili1]

YESSSS HIGGS VIDEO!! :D THANK YOU BRADY!!!

[@419dman]

Albert wasn't saying that everyone will truly understand your simple explination, only that if you have a deep understanding you can explain it simply: e=mc² Now that is a wonderfully simple explanation that takes quite a bit of doing to fully understand is it not.

[@Grey80002]

Excellent video, thanks.

[@NicenEasyuk]

Nice one brady, been waiting for this!

[@ninjaplease123]

Update video please brady!

[@DerHerrIstMeineStärke]

@pjn2001 Mechanical waves (twisting) travel slower than the speed of light, actually the twisting travels at what is called the speed of sound (for that specific material)

[@Benjabenja77]

I really love your videos.

[@ross_coron]

Although there are a number of educational videos on KZbin, I don't think there are any as informative AND as well made as sixtysymbols and co. Not only a good advertisement for Nottingham but for education in the UK and science in general.

[@MrGuitarbike]

I want to go to the university of Nottingham now... Love all these vids.

[@MCmattcarrington]

As the particle interacts more, it is slowed down more and so it's effective speed seems lower due to all of the interactions. As it has a lower speed you could say it has a lower energy. This relates to the water analogy, where the decrease in energy leads to an increase in interaction with a field. I heard this analogy from a talk a couple of months ago on the Higgs Boson but I may have forgotten or misremembered some important details. But it is still an interesting concept though.

[@MCmattcarrington]

I find this an interesting analogy: Imagine a bath of water. You can move your hand through it easily without much resistance so you'd call the 'rigidity' of the water zero. You cool the water down (i.e. reduce it's energy) below 0°C so that all of the water is now ice. When you try to move your hand through the water/ice, it is almost impossible to do so (without displacing the entire ice block!), so the 'rigidity' is higher. (See reply comment to continue reading....)

[@LegosAndBeer]

@LegosAndBeer This propagation of the force reaches the end with a certain velocity, and so with a certain time, which is almost instant if you are talking about 1m metal rod.

[@rywilk]

In a public lecture, Peter Higgs said he particularly disliked the "honey/molasses/treacle" analogy as it implies that particles lose energy as they pass through the field.

[@bradywells1293]

from my limited understanding I think a major problem with that analogy is that the speed of something moving through molasses is affected, whereas only the acceleration of matter through the higgs field is affected, not velocity.

[@TheGCoast]

Photons ARE massless, but within the decay of the boson energy is released as well, and like you said, energy equals m.c².

[@chrisofnottingham]

"I really can't do a good job - any job, of explaining magnetic force in terms of something else that you are more familiar with because I don't understand it in terms of anything else that you are more familiar with." - Richard Feynman Looks like the same story for mass.

[@LegosAndBeer]

@LegosAndBeer So now, you not only have a twisting force perpendicular to the rod but you also have a propagation of that force traveling parallel to it through the inside of it and through Its particles and this force ultimately reaches the other end of the rod.

[@MrKorrazonCold]

Vibrating sound waves are compressions and expansions in between air molecules forming wave chain reactions from A to B.. . . The compression is formed by the entire atmosphere acting upon every point. . ..Because within every ocean of waves there is always pressure at every point. . ..And the same goes for the fourth state of Vibrating Matter the entire observable plasma field vector of the universe acting upon every point of space from a distance radius. . ..Because centre is everywhere forming the total amplitude of sine wavefronts, at each and every point of space compressing +1=0 now -1 de-compressing Two Opposing Spiral Vortices, or contracting +1=0 now -1 expanding virtual pair's spiralling out of existence.. . . The total amplitude formed by a "rings series" of inward 4pi spherical waves coming into every point, colliding at maximum compression points, at wave crests and wave troughs always seeks a minimum +1=0 now are equally balanced by opposite expansion -1 at interchanging compression points. . ..As trillions of inward 4pi spherical waves cancel now the sum of opposite vectors mathematically is always zero. . ..(Zero Point Field).. . .Leaving space with an average temperature, or pressure stillness of the wave amplitude squared.. . . This polarized superposition of the oscillating wave amplitude squared is the reason for entanglement, for the symmetry or conservation laws in human physics or why, at the speed of C, time and space are zero due to length contraction and time dilation.. . .Or why the point of charge Q remains the same for the entire positive surface of a negative expanding light sphere.. . .Because the photons input +1=0 now -1 output polarization in between the crests and troughs will remain the same (sharing the same expanding moment of time) no matter how large the light sphere becomes until acted upon by an external force.. . . This is why when adding pressure to the wave medium from an atom or group of atoms absorbing energy input +1=0 now -1 expanding their own space-time (time) at the speed of the square of light.. . .The positive surface of a negative expanding light sphere transverses input +1=0 now -1 output wave chain reactions (entangling input +1=0 now -1 unfolding 2pi spiral radians 360 degrees from A to B).. . .Therefore is no spooky action in between you and me!! Huygens wavelets forming the wavefronts are rather like drops of water into a pond, or like the bit's, the zeros and ones of a computer screen, with the Planck's constant h the constant of action continuously forming a blank canvas that we can interact with turning the possible into the actual.. . . This zero point field is the very beginning of everything giving us a starting point, or concept of zero in our mathematics. . ..And not the big bung theory LOL!!! Now space is a division of solidity as time unfolds into entropy C2 the second law of thermodynamics.. . .But also in the future E2 will equal a multiplication of Volume +1=0 now at the expense of gravitational potential -1.. . .E2=M2 C4+P2 C2.. . . Most people have no idea that these tiny implosions +1=0 now -1 explosions are going on inside of them!! The Higgs Bosons from Higgs field are really just photon oscillations from all other matter spherically distributed around the particle now in 3D space, or electromagnetic vibrations multiplying inward from the universe. . ..!! Thus in the future background waves must propagate non linearly towards the central region producing two coupling resonances input +1=0 now -1 output interference.. . .Or antimatter matter annihilation.. . . We then upon observing the outward momentum of quantized spherical wavefronts of electromagnetic radiation, or photon oscillations independent of the motion of its source.. . .And then call that process of change "charge." Therefore it is a surrounding 4pi spherical inward absorption +1=0 now -1 outward emission of electromagnetic waves that's forming resonances antimatter matter annihilation, forming positive and negative electric charge, and electromagnetic interference fields (2pi spiral radians 360 degrees) as time unfolds C2.. . .from objects!! As the frequency gets higher the Planck's constant will be multiplied by a larger rate oscillating photon electron couplings within that object, and the time period will slow down relative to the perspective of an outside observer at the centre of their own time line of broken symmetry.. . . The fact that this spherical region of the One Infinite Universe has a limited observable range as the waves come from a distance radius now, is observable in the shape of an inverse sphere. . ..4pi R2.. . .And the fact that the electron is a perfectly round vibrating sphere.. . .Are two sides of the same + and - coin!! There exists only two combinations of these Two Spherical Sine Wavefronts multiplying inward +1=0 now -1 dividing outward at right angles from their source.. . . They have opposite vectors and quantum spin forming the positron +1=0 now -1 electron Wave Centre.. . .4pi R2=/N pi Re2.. . .Or, "the two dipole energy states of Qubit's" in quantum computing which can be such things as photons, trapped ions, atoms, electrons, and nuclear spins, made of Vibrating Wavefronts concentrically layered like onions called shells in particle physics, or Spherical Standing Wave Structures.. . .Only difference is time dilating Volume now - their output was the negation of their input: 0 goes to 1,1 to 0.. . .the start of the Fibonacci spiral.. . . Therefore generation of "any information" exceeds radiation during the first half of the cycle +1=0 now -1 radiation exceeds generation during the second half of the cycle.. . .as the constant outward momentum of EMR repels like charged particles absorbing energy input +1=0 now -1 emitting the density from the two previous vectors spiralling out the Fibonacci sequence seen almost everywhere in nature.. . . Therefore everything is made of just Two Spherical Sine Wavefronts Compressing +1=0 now -1 de-compressing Two Opposing Spiral Vortices!! From virtual pair's of plasma, to gases, liquids, and solid Fibonacci fractals!! Only difference is time dilating Volume now at the centre of their own 3D ref-frames within the One Infinite Universe.. . .and therein lies the secret of the universal pulse beat.. . .All motion is 2pi spiral.. . .And all direction is 4pi spherically curved.. . . Input +1=0 now -1 output is a process of 4pi spherical symmetry forming and breaking.. Because everything is formed by a surrounding 4pi spherical inward absorption +1=0 now -1 outward emission of electromagnetic waves.. . . Electrical potential is the same as future potential imploding within any 3D centred ref-frame, or object. . ..Thus the Lorentz contraction of time and space is infinite in our universe within the active cores of galaxies!! Surrounding implosive energy compression contracting time and space where the virtual pair's formed by the probability wave function 4pi R2's the "rings series" of photon energy coming into +1=0 now out of existence, that could not escape from being multiplied to infinity t=0.. . .Now forming an equal and opposite explosive de-compression of Cosmic ray jets and synchrotron radiation expanding outward via the poles.. . .somewhere within the infinite universe!! A sort of fusion of wave and emission of new Cosmic rays.. . .Cosmic rays are 89% hydrogen nuclei, 10% helium nuclei, and 1% everything else.. . . Atomic particles are really high wave amplitude "Wave Centres of pure Vibration" from regions of intense surrounding wave pressure, made of Vibrating Wavefronts concentrically layered like onions called shells in particle physics, or Spherical Standing Wave Structures over a period of time.. . . Stimulated emission is a process by the way of which a higher energy quantum mechanical state of an atomic particle absorbing energy input +1=0 now is being converted to a lower level -1 resulting in the production of light photon oscillations.. . . A sort of fusion of wave and emission of new quantized spherical wavefronts of electromagnetic radiation independent of the motion of its source, as time unfolds into the future.. . . The One Unified Electromagnetic Spectrum, is a continuous flow of energy (Vibrating Waves) therefore light is a transverse sinusoidal wave!!.. . .And it was time that was quantized.. . . Space-time was quantized into moments.. . .Only the frequency now is relative at each dipole magnetic moment of time.. . . Time is inverse multiplying +1=0 now -1 dividing like frequency and wavelength.. . And because there will always by a constant de-compression of statistical entropy, or expansion C2.. . .There will never be a heat death.. . . And the universe will never die either, simply because it was never born in one big magical moment, but rather time is relative to an objects own vibrating energy or mass!! Now space is a division of solidity into entropy as time unfolds C2 the second law of thermodynamics.. . .But also in the future E2 will equal a multiplication of Volume +1=0 now at the expense of gravitational potential -1.. . . Gravitational systems are the ashes from prior electrical systems -1.. . . . Velocity equals time density +1=0 now -1 density of space-time.. . . V= td +1=0 now -1 ds-t G/r2.. . . And because of the conservation of energy every point of space is relative to an infinite future coming into +1=0 now -1 out of existence.. . .Thus, everything will eventually reform, recreating the same patterns of broken symmetry throughout endless cycles of ever greater complexity and diversity.. . . Now that constant explosive de-compression dividing expansion outward from the Sun transverses the inward force called gravity as time unfolds C2.. . .Takes about eight minutes to reach Earth.. . . And likewise the constant outward momentum of the light from Earth (the negative polarity forms the acceleration) or gravitation from the continuous stimulated emissions as time unfolds C2.. . .As their individual light spheres superimpose crests and troughs become in phase now (their space time line symmetries will synchronize) or amplify by multiplying electrical potential along cubic dynameters compressing the wave amplitude +1=0 now -1 the shorter the expanding 2pi spiral wavelengths dividing acceleration away from its source in unison.. . . In other words as the positive surface of the negative expanding light sphere's increases with the square of the surrounding radius now the strength of the gravitational field transverses Q inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source of that constant expanding light sphere as time unfolds into the future.. . . Therefore is no need for dark matter.. . . Because the total oscillating amplitude of Sine Wavefronts, or the magnetic fields are always at right angles to the forward direction of the electric 2pi spiral current.. . . This is rather like a series of wavefronts forming now breaking at right angles coming to a seashore.. . . Concentrated spheres at right angles, such as electrons, onions, the Earth and Sun, are surrounded by now slice layers of light of equal pressures.. . . Clouds float around the Earth in them.. . .The reason they float in curves parallel to the Earth is because of these equipotential planes of pressures which curve as the Earth curves.. . . Spherically curved planes of pressures act as lenses to multiply now divide light radially because everything is contracting and expanding a locational 4pi spherical inward absorption +1=0 now -1 outward emission of electromagnetic waves.. . .

[@austinnguyen9107]

The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma

[@roycerice11]

you should do series building on specific topics

[@redanwrong]

""THAT"S NOT IT AT ALL"

[@coldlogic1]

nice to see scientists as so generious. we all need to be nice like this.

[@Rael0505]

@Goldiney I'm no physicist, but from what I understand, all dimensions are as physical as the three we are aware of.

[@tacobelldriver]

mind blown...

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

This is an invitation to see an artist theory on the physics of light and time! This is based on just one equation (E= ˠ M˳C²) ∞ the Lorentz contraction of space and time is between the energy and mass. The greater the energy the greater the contraction of space and the slower time will run. Mass will increase relative to this and each ref-frame can be seen as a vortex in space formed by the rate that time flows. The brackets represent the boundary condition of the ref-frame within infinity

[@kriptonis]

with that decay, there is release of energy as well. So it's 1 higgs = energy + 2 protons.

[@LegosAndBeer]

@Woosly192 In relation to what I said before, what would probably happen anyway is that the rod would break itself duo to the huge mass and consequently inertia. To my understanding Relativity does impose a cosmic speed limit, thought the neutrino experiment contradicts It (that's why everyone thinks Its some kind systematic of error).

[@tiagotiagot]

@intermender I'm not clear on the actual mechanism, but the energy gets kinda diverted; with photons for example, they just get bluer.

[@Gytax0]

@hotelroomsmoker It depends on reference frames. If one car is going at 10 km/h to the South and the other car is going at 10 km/h to the North, they will see each other pass by at 20 km/h. This is relativity. However, if you take light as the reference frame, for all observers it is moving at c, no matter how fast you go. It is sort of a holy grail of reference frames. Needless to say, Special theory of Relativity predicts, that no object with a mass can go at c.

[@ohwhererehwho]

Particles and the expression of mass may be by-products of spacetime and its curvature (E). Time does not tick at a constant rate..There are probably loci where time does not occur at all - such as within some particles. Higgs bozons may represent origins of time vectors and Higgs fields may represent spacetime radiating from the origins (the bozon). Just a passing thought with a lot swept under the rug (and/or sombrero).

[@wolterh6]

@LegosAndBeer from an engineering student's point of view, I find your words very precise

[@DigimonDNASavers]

I have a question, is it because of the decay of the higgs particle that CREATES the other bosons, or there are other ways where bosons such as photons and W, Z particle mediate the respective forces are formed?

[@Rakkoonn]

@tetranoob If a particle doesn't have mass it would move at the speed of light, so I'm pretty sure that's the case.

[@blenderpanzi]

The explainantion of the higgs field reminded me of this Armstrong and Miller sketch: 3wHKBavY_h8

[@xxxxcensoredxxx]

I have a question for sixty symbols, I understand my fundamentals but I don't study physics or science at all for that matter so excuse my ignorance. I was contemplating photons; we can see red shifted galaxies from billions of years ago because of the finite speed of light. Do these little massless photons not decay? I know they can be absorbed and be de-accelerated, but I find it incredible that they can travel for so long and far and send us such precious information. Cheers

[@TheGCoast]

Ohh many thanks

[@SkinheadSmurf]

Higgs Boson = The Force "The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together." ―Obi-Wan about The Force[src]

[@MuadDib1402]

The Higgs field, It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together?

[@revorocks123]

Thank you so much for (all be it roughly) explaining the Higgs mechanism. I guess it does make sense this theory, as gravity, space and time are all interwoven, and mass has an effect on them. For this fabric of space time to also be a fabric of electromagnetics and a mass mechanism would be such a neat theory. It would all fit together nicely, and would unlock new studies of manipulating the Higgs field maybe to create artificial mass? Would be pretty cool!

[@1KevinsFamousChili1]

i confused myslef a little so correct me if i'm wrong: Total # of collisions (from the info he gave) x31 556 926 (seconds in a year) 200 000 000 (collisions a second) = 631 138 520 000 000 (631.1 hundred trillion)

[@SciPhi161]

I think he's brilliant and if you saw the other videos with him in them you would think the same. At least everyone else does.

[@Gytax0]

@hotelroomsmoker First, it's not the speed limit set by me. It's set by nature and laws of physics. Second, I don't have a deep background in cosmology, but according to Hubble's law, the further a galaxy is from one point, the faster (RELATIVE TO THAT POINT) it is moving. It depends on the reference frame you are using. And I don't even know if you can say that objects are moving FTL when the space between them is just expanding.

[@alcapwned86]

He's not being condescending, he's being realistic. He actually made 2 things clear: 1) he doesn't fully understand it (see 4:36, 9:50, and others) so he can't really explain it, and 2) even those who do can't explain it to a layman in a soundbite because it requires vast esoteric knowledge. The irony here is that your inability to grasp such basic ideas only supports what he said. As they say: "you'll never go broke overestimating the stupidity of others" (especially on youtube).

[@opliik]

Indeed, we don't fully comprehend these physics yet. That's why we build big expensive particle accelerators. To study them and learn.

[@SonOfAntalis]

explaining something simply is only a matter of perspective.

[@1KevinsFamousChili1]

@Stickalas lol yep that's why it's so elusive and these hints of it are being strongly classified as just hints for the very reason that this is such a rare occurance

[@noxure]

The Higgs Boson: It's like a hat.... and Brad Pit... wearing the hat... at a party. Imagine Brad Pit wearing the hat at a party. Well, it's nothing like that at all. That's pretty much how Doctor Who would explain it.

[@LegosAndBeer]

@LegosAndBeerBut If hypothetically, you where at space (taking gravity and friction out of the equation really helps) with a 100km metal rod with hundreds of tons and some machine powered enough to twist it, due to the big scale you would be able to detect the effect of inertia and you would see the parallel force propagate thought the rod much like a wave creating a spiral.

[@qhack]

Having now watched this... I can officially say I am more confused than before I watched this.

[@AraoftheFunk]

Every time I watch this video I think: "Maybe this time I'll get it..." but I never do.

[@MultiPaulinator]

Thank you. That cleared everything up. I now understand that my understanding of the basis of matter is every bit as informed as my understanding of how babies are made when I was 6 years old. To recap, I'm pretty sure that what you just said was that when I bring my right thumb towards my right temple at a relative velocity of approximately 465 kilometers per second, this creates a wave through my body causing my hip to hit the ground and that is what matter is. Got it. Thanks :-P Love the vids

[@MrMartinSchou]

He never said the general public is daft. He said that it cannot be explained in simple terms that everyone understands. Using analogies only works to a very small extent when dealing with physics that doesn't behave in ways we're used to. Like magnets. Here's one of the best physicists of the 20th century talking about magnets: /watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM This isn't whinging - it's trying to point out that it cannot be explained in simple terms.

[@LadyTink]

Yes... maybe...

[@MsAngelface888]

Thanks sixtysymbols, that's a very good vid! So if the Cern scientists keep looking for the oscillation in the falloff of the field. And there is enough mass collided together, by the near speed of light, as the protons are fired. This repetition, of big bangs, should hopefully produce a result? Wow, the electricity bills must be astronomical!

[@prnkstr]

I love this channel!

[@SweIceMan]

Rest in peace, Peter Higgs.

[@EtPivot]

I was waiting for this :) thanks :)

[@a3455666]

Photons are not massless, because energy is equivalent to mass (E = m c²). They just have no rest mass.

[@cristianfcao]

I think you really should do a video on how a particle accelerator works!

[@1KevinsFamousChili1]

@Stickalas ok thats for checking it over

[@MrOldprof]

@cuallito I'm a physics professor in condensed matter physics.

[@sixtysymbols]

@Stickalas there is quite a bit of engineering on nottinghamscience

[@PrivateAckbar]

The Higgs field seems like something we don't understand well even in theory.

[@kdawg3484]

I'd be curious what series of books from A to Z a laymen would need to read to actually understand the Higgs as a particle physicist does. I get what they mean that you have to build up one's knowledge to graduate level to start discussing it. I don't believe you would actually need to be enrolled in a graduate program to get there, though. I bet one of the Sixty Symbols profs could put together a series of books they use to get there step-by-step. Not dumbed down books. Proper books on the subject used in schools and research. Just ordered in the right way to build on top of each other.

[@salottin]

You'll probably need a lot of mathematics by themselves, too

[@Ashitaka255]

@Fomelogo I agree but there's a reason it's explained this way. The public can't understand theoretical physics so it must be explained simply. They can't give you an entire physics journal every time they say something. They don't just get to say what they want really.

[@ohwhererehwho]

Speed of light in a vacuum? In expanding intergalactic space, the vacuum is variably punctuated with particles, perhaps star dust, perhaps virtual particles. In space there are streams of varying density with boundaries! Fields that define these boundaries are present in a particle. Energy is spacetime's curves! Time itself is a variable: Time can be stationary, a symmetry constant such as within a particle that punctuates a pure vacuum. "C" may be a constant but spacetime varys. Where's Bozon?

[@MylesJP]

Could you guys do a video on Cherenkov radiation and how electrons can somehow travel faster than light in water?

[@halflifeproductionz]

this stuff hurts my head.

[@tiocoolj]

where's the guy that was in the video with galaxy spirals? the guy that studies galaxies? i like him!

[@Jkheretic]

because of this show i understand everything on the big bang theory.

[@LegosAndBeer]

@LegosAndBeerThe only way It would be possible to break the speed of light would be through some kind of back door. Pen-Penrose bridges would be one way and quantum entanglement other...thought neither one would break the speed of light, they would permit instantaneous information transfer.

[@LadyTink]

Exactly

[@LegosAndBeer]

@LegosAndBeerSo you would very much see that 2 km forward from the point where you applied the force it toke 1 min to be twisted and after 2 min the twisting effect reached the 4km mark. Anyway the figures are made-up and don't take it has true, this was just me with my limited knowlege trying to solve your problem. Hope it helped.

[@links212]

Could you guys do something that involves spin? I'm really confused as to what it is and how it works.

[@MetalheadMr666]

Well, I think it is important to understand that we have never even observed quarks outside of nucleons. This is because quarks have asymptotic freedom. I think it is interesting that we can still see them indirectly through particle jets, kinda like how we know the pope exists because we have seen him indirectly through the t.v. I guess the Higgs Boson sort of works the same way? It decays so quickly we will never directly "see" it.

[@RoScFan]

OK. What I want to know, as a "layman" although I did study physics, is is this at all connected with the theory of everything, the union of the 4fundamental forces? mass related to gravity, higgs relates to mass, so does higgs relate to gravity? is this going to create new technology?

[@srikika]

plz make more videos..