Talking about the Higgs Boson - Sixty Symbols

[@Xasperato]

He's a smooth speaker.

[@yaribsuarez8725]

yeah

[@jeanqnguyen4542]

Yup smooth operator, aren’t we suckers for geekazoids ...I think 😍I’m in love

[@Fahumsixtysix]

That's Americans for you ;)

[@lostindixie]

His side gig is doing voice overs for commercials. Pays the bills for his science hobbies.

[@saleplains]

look up "the great courses" its a series of audio lectures available on audible he did a couple its basically hours and hours of this. hes an excellent lecturer makes the most complicated stuff comprehensible

[@tonysouter8095]

For training academics, I use Sean Carroll as the gold standard for science communication. He makes his listeners feel so good about themselves. The smile in his voice, on his talking mouth, conveys his utter joy at the science. It's inspiring.

[@mayamoimayamoi5215]

Wonderful. So nice to hear an interviewer asking just the right questions and I could listen to Sean answer them all day. love this

[@Zubzub343]

This guy is one of the best I've ever seen on KZbin videos explaining things.

[@imadgibbs9063]

He's definitely up there with Neil Degrasse, Feynman and Sagan.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

And not a single Uhhh, or Ahhh to be heard. Excellent speaker. Excellent.

[@nickeshchauhan5661]

Paul Freedman Sorry, 11:39. But I agree, he's a great communicator and incredibly smart.

[@masondodd7252]

Zubzub343 he's extremely engaging. Couldn't imagine having someone like that for a professor

[@TomLeg]

11:04

[@Kitsua]

I really like how Sean Carroll explains things. Aside from being very knowledgable and lucid, he has a particularly mellifluous voice.

[@stureeks6594]

A simply beautiful lay explanation of Higgs and the importance of fields. The pair of pianos analogy, in particular, was fantastic. Thank you all for taking the time to make to make these videos. They are a credit to science and journalism. Now, more on fields please.

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

Such a poised speaker

[@TheMasonX23]

Brady is planning to either outlive or outright murder Sean...

[@Vitringur]

It will probably look like an accident

[@rigelb9025]

@@Vitringur Like a collision perhaps.

[@RichardvsHimself]

I swear Brady you manage to come up with some of the most interesting questions when interviewing your subjects - like the question at the end about not being able to see future experiments or tell past scientists your current discoveries - part of why I think you're such a good documentary film maker

[@tadizzleh2109]

Inspiring video. I'm stuck in undergraduate Physics and these talks inspire me to keep going.

[@errmoc5682]

i would consider yourself very fortunate :)

[@merlinthegreat100]

tadizzle h I'm about to join you. Read Black Holes & Time Warps , it inspired me even more. Our duty is to explain and understand the universe to the best of our ability

[@bananamaniac2]

I like this guy.

[@0xCAFEF00D]

I really like Sean's explanation. We need more of him.

[@AussieEvonne]

Sean Carroll not only explains things well in this video, he has a great voice.

[@DrDress]

4:47 "a little bit of detective work" that's quite the understatement :-)

[@RimstarOrg]

Does anyone else think Brady's really worried about what he's going to miss out on 60 or 70 years from now? Can't say I blame him though.

[@Triantalex]

No, noone else.

[@Nehmo]

I'm 63 (born 1954), and I believe the main questions of the universe were answered in my lifetime. I witnessed the rise of dark matter, the settlement of the debate over the dinosaur extinction, the discovery that the universe is accelerating in its expansion, the discrete transistor to integrated circuit evolution, the advent of human space travel, the move from prop to jet engines on planes, the development of GPS, cell phones, the understanding that protons and neutrons are composed of quarks and gluons, the confirmation of the Higgs field, the discovery of quantum entanglement, the internet... But people of all times thought they were special. Am I just suckered by my perspective? My father (who had his kids late in life and was born 1902) could claim in his lifetime there was special relativity, general relativity, the discovery of the atomic nucleus, the discovery of galaxies beyond our own, the beginnings of the electronic revolution, two world wars, atomic energy, antibiotics, etc…I've considered that, and still, I conclude my lifetime is special. Indeed, I’ve got my father beat. But what’s next? It's hard to envision how the next generations can keep up the pace of advancement.

[@UrsusSuperior44]

Nehmo Sergheyev I'm 40 years younger than you and I am pretty certain that any generation that will come after us till the end of humanity will have moments like us and perceive them as we do. My short lifespan of 25 years was enough for me to see that in fact we as mankind are accelerating in terms of scientific discovery. I personally assume that present days "forte" is artificial intelligence and bioengineering. Let me ask you - were you worried about what the discoveries of your younger days? What they could/would/actually led to? Because I myself am a little worried about the direction some people in the community would like/are about to take. Maybe it's just the same pattern - every generation is "all gloom and doom" about scientific discoveries of their times, way too worried about what might come?

[@b33lze6u6]

i believe the phrase " its about the journey, not the destination" sums up the last part of the video

[@NEprimo]

b33lze6u6 Oath of the Radiant

[@Maharani1991]

I only recently got into Sixty Symbols, and I'm quite astonished to find out that Gilderoy Lockhart is now a particle physicist??

[@NemosChannel]

+GerSHAK *slow clap*

[@PositronsPlay]

I started reading his book about a week ago, and am so happy to see this video!

[@craigcottam]

Wow, what a voice and such a casual ability to explain complicated things. Why have I not seen him presenting doco's on this stuff?

[@bryanroland9402]

My favourite science communicator interviewed by my favourite interviewer. A real treat.

[@brendanbramman]

I feel like this video helped to clarify this topic better than any others I've watched, and I've watched so many trying to understand it. Thanks a lot Brady!

[@PlastikGUbilationz]

THANK YOU Brady for such a heart-warming and soul-stirring video about scientific motivation!!! It's just so gratuitous to know there are people out there who are so dedicated to, what i like to call, humanity's fundamental destiny as intelligent beings; especially after having to put up with life's bs like politics, popular media etc. This channel is truly something special!

[@davidsweeney111]

I really cant get enough of what professor Sean Carroll has to say, it blows my mind. More!

[@Ledjye]

You could say that it's like looking at the universe in layers. Even though it's not the real way the universe works, it makes it easier to pick out what you're looking for among the noise. Like if you take a full colour photo, but you only want to see red, so you put filter over it which mutes and removes all the other colours so you can more easily focus on what most concerned you.

[@davidmafullul6181]

Ed's face at 2:05 gets me everytime aha

[@edd8914]

Ed Copeland's enthusiasm is infectious

[@superhacker35]

This extremely fundamental description of the 4 Elements that explain the entire universe is exactly what I have been looking for since days! thanks

[@duositex]

Fantastic video Brady and Sean. Beautiful encapsulation of mortality vs. the immortality of knowledge.

[@bigguix]

Such a wonderful way to end the interview. I'm struggling everyday with the fact that I just have this one little slice of time to interact with the world and that I will never be able to experience what was or what will be... The way he puts it comforts me and will help me get rid of that never-ending melancholy of the only-1-life constat.

[@machouchacha]

The very last answer is amazing in all its wisdom and simplicity. Thank you.

[@AlanKey86]

"Every generation gets to apply the talents it has to the problems that its faced with... there are so many great problems, we are at no loss for interesting questions to puzzle over" There's a great quote if ever I heard one!

[@heyimrobee]

I`m soo happy to be able to watch this while having my breakfast. Just open KZbin and in 10 seconds I'm watching something interesting, which I've never heard of. Technology is amazing. And thank you guys for making such brilliant programmes!

[@pjlehtim]

This makes me love science even more than I already did! Thank you for posting this.

[@lesconrads]

such a good speaker! Also - I like your ability to ask those questions. Need to be so quick, thinking about what to ask next.

[@sponsoredmadness]

Good to see videos explaining things simply and not just spouting media buzzwords. Keep up the great work over there.

[@arthur78]

I have watched hours of talks and presentations from Sean Carroll. I'm a fan.

[@thejumperkin]

I love Sean's description of the fields. He is a great speaker

[@Nexus2Eden]

What a brilliant and articulate man, I would love to attend any lecture of his ~ it would be fascinating and enjoyable. Great work Brady.

[@supermaucat]

Sean Carroll is one of my fav teachers to listen to. His courses are amazing.

[@UFObloggger]

Good interview with this brilliant cosmologist.waiting for other interviews

[@Huli-Man]

This has so high production value! it was an amazing video. Thanks

[@MrMotchel]

Excellent discussion! Thank you!

[@whatisthebigpicture]

I like the way he talkes and explains things - I'd like to see more videos with Sean.

[@lolopueo]

Just started "The Particle at the End of the Universe", it has helped me make more sense out of quantum mechanics than any other book thus far, which isn't saying much but thanks all the same.

[@ianswitzer3395]

The speed of light is also the speed of all massless particles. Or a "constant" if you will. If a particle is massless it must be moving at the speed of light. The effect that seems to let it slow down outside of vaccums is when it bounces off of particles, causing it to move a greater distance. The higgs field can be though of an large number of particles everywhere. Letting particles that "bounce" off of it bounce back and forth so quickly it appears as if they arent moving.

[@ShiroKage009]

Thanks for saying this. Every professor, who's an active researcher, that I have met so far was always fascinated by the knowledge they get from their research and the research conducted by others. They would even listen to me talking about a freak paper I read somewhere and would try and to extract as much info about that topic as I can offer. Most basic research done is done for the sake of knowing first. Benefits come 3rd or 4th down the list.

[@kasuha]

Thank you very much, this is one of best videos about Higgs I have ever seen.

[@higdonalex]

This is probably the clearest explanation of the Higgs Boson I've ever heard. Thank you!

[@davidsweeney111]

Now this is the kind of stuff that gets your blood racing, wow, bring it on Sean, give us more !

[@rogerdotlee]

WOOT! Well done again. It was worth the wait (including withdrawal symptoms).

[@ToxisLT]

Please give us more Sean Carroll.. I am always almost hypnotized by his voice and his ability to explain extraordinary stuff in a language that is understandable even to a moron like myself. If you haven't already, find/buy Sean's TTC lectures, they are simply awesome... Ok, back to youtube culture - Gief Sean NAO:)

[@theHiddenStone]

Thanks for this - first time I've heard this explained in a way which made any kind of sense to me!

[@deenibeeniable]

I love it that there is always lots of dense stuff on all their blackboards that wasn't put there by a set designer, like the one on Good Will Hunting.

[@DickJohnson3434]

This interviewer of sixtysymbols asks the best fucking questions. He's the best interviewer of physicists I've ever seen. It seems like he always has the question that elicits the most relevant information.

[@50Janoh]

great interview. informative with interesting questions

[@NikkiDussault]

Brady, as always, an absolute pleasure.

[@HeavyMetalMouse]

The best part about physics like this, at the bleeding edge, is that nobody knows what will come from it in a practical sense. Nobody could have guessed, before the formalization of quantum theory, all the intensely useful practical technology we'd make that takes advantage of its results. Nobody could have predicted, before electrodynamics was formalized, how electric currents and magnetics would fundamentally alter the modern world. I'm really looking forward to what happens next.

[@DrDress]

7:00 Always the question: "why spend billions on an obscure esoteric scientific discovery". Well, the LHC cost about 9 billion dollars. McDonals spend this on advertisment in a few years and it could fund the afgan war for less than a month. So maybe we should focus our critical questions where they are most needed.

[@puremuakorvaan]

So great that also we get to know what's up in Cern thanks to your video.

[@anthony19735]

I love listening to Sean. More please.

[@Asinineconcepts]

What a great interview thank you for providing this video it made my day.

[@DickJohnson3434]

Sean Carroll is my favorite science communicator. He has a lecture series on The Teaching Company about Dark matter and Dark Energy which is amazing.

[@Justpooinabush]

Sean Carroll is an all round BAMF. Skeptic, cosmologist and just an awesome dude. Watch his lectures or read his books people!

[@ErgoCogita]

Yep, that's more or less how I understand it as well. I suggested that as indicative of the futility in suggesting infinite smallness when there is conceivably a fundamental limit to how small we can or will be able to probe. For now, Planckscale represents that limit.

[@ERW311]

ErgoCogita, both your comments are awesome and made my night!

[@BenHartelProductions]

I want to see more interviews from this guy. He just boggled my mind.

[@basestudent]

Shout out to Brady for asking awesome questions!

[@StopFear]

As a cancer survivor I definitely appreciate the invention of PET scans. Once again, I am not arguing there is no usefulness from past discoveries on people today. I am just asking a philosophical question what could motivate individual scientists to discover things further unless they get financial rewards. Would they continue if they were paid much less they are paid now?

[@rich1051414]

Well, he also insinuated that knowing less would benefit our understanding, but it wouldn't. It would only benefit us understanding incorrectly. It is true, we can never know everything, but because everything can never be learned, this does not mean learn nothing since we can never reach the finish line. The journey is worth it, and the only thing worse than not finishing a race is never starting.

[@keniangervo8417]

Strong words coming from a guitar.

[@auchucknorris]

i really like this particular video, science is always amazing and the entire journey not just the end result of what the ultimate answer turns out to be,

[@jcfreak73]

So here's a question: how do the various fields overlay each other? Are they blended together throughout space, or do they somehow transcend space and exist in distinct intersecting axes of existence. Like the electromagnetic field is the x axis, and the higgs is the y axis, the gluon in the z axis, etc...?

[@christiananderson6761]

Brilliant mind brilliant communicator and educator

[@RedWurm]

and advances in the technology needed to study particle physics have led to some of our most advanced methods of medical imaging, which are in turn used to help cure cancer. Which is nice.

[@odlsej]

The best Sixty Symbols video EVER!

[@JambonLaBanane]

Objects DO have constant excitations, but it does not come from the Higgs' Boson, at least, not only from it. Objects have mass in part because they interact with that vibration which is the Higgs Boson.

[@MattErskine]

That Piano analogy was my lightbulb... it just went *ding*

[@Glassjaw003]

Loved his answer at the end.

[@TheBlueicecream]

2:08 Now that's how you can tell that he is VERY happy.

[@jpmthemonk]

Sean Carroll! You guys should read his book about time. And listen to his lecture on the same topic. Blew my mind.

[@GabrielKnightz]

It never stops to amaze me that amazing leaps of mankind are being made and learned at one end of the world and at the other its burning in war and politics and hunger, and all of it on our little blue rock. yesh.

[@Olhado256]

I haven't watched the video yet, but 13 minutes of Higgs Boson-ness? I'm already happy!

[@brick_lizard]

"Every generation gets to apply the talents it has to the problems it's faced with" -Sean Carroll

[@sananapee]

That last answer was amazing. It really got to me.

[@megamastah]

He talks and talks and talks. Amazing.

[@TheFlashinPulsar]

They discovered a lot of things on the way up to the Higgs Boson. Now the LHC takes a two year slumber for repair, and will come back running w/ more power than before. So what happens next will be amazing.

[@ThisIsTheJer]

I'd love to see more videos with Sean Carroll!

[@AdaptorLive]

Sean Carroll is awesome! I've watched his 'Dark Matter, Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe' video course quite a few times. Thanks for the interesting video :)

[@Pianoguy32]

there are some videos around youtube of him giving lectures where you can hear his awesome voice for a long time lol

[@esdev92]

He explains it so well.

[@Helix535]

And it just stopped? Why?! This was interesting. Thank you for taking the time to make these.

[@WhoClashQueenStones]

Thanks for clarifying, Mr.S

[@allamericandude15]

Or you could read his books. I recently checked out "From Eternity to Here", and it's really interesting. It's just like his videos/lectures, but more detailed and book-ier. Like the social philosopher Arthur Aardvark once said: "Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card!"

[@AugustBooth]

This guy is really great at expressing physics theory.

[@CaptCremin]

They have relativistic mass in the sense that energy and mass are indistinguishable/interchangeable in relativity, but they don't have what we would think of as mass.

[@WheatThin55Edu]

I'm holding his book right now! Great read.

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

It seems to me we create our own subatomic particle relative to our energy. We can use particle accelerators to increase the energy forming more unusual particle but the process is universal! This is an invitation to see an artist theory on the physics of light & time.

[@Rachel801]

Kyventidis: Particle physics has both theory AND observation to support itself, so it is going to be really hard to refute. If you believe that you have the correct theory, then by all means, put together a paper and include all your equations and observations and submit it for publication. That is the proper way to convince the rest of the world that we're wrong.

[@liquidminds]

I'd even go so far to say that "understanding is a requirement for knowledge" Being able to understand the world around you will definitely help you in gathering knowledge. And being able to read isn't knowledge, it's a skill. Like painting or crafts. But it's a skill, essential to gather written down knowledge, with the hope of being able to understand it, to make it knowledge of your own. But repeating what someone else said, without understanding, is not knowledge. That's faith.

[@StopFear]

Thanks for a reasonable response.