The Most Difficult Problem in Physics | The Big Bang Machine | BBC Earth Science

[@seanys]

This show is from 2008. The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012.

[@faisalrkhawaja]

Thank you. I was so confused! Why would BBC post this now?

[@aussiebloke609]

Thanks. That was getting seriously confusing...I was screaming "Higgs!" at the monitor, my cat was climbing the curtains in fear...

[@aneildavis]

Yes, and Brian worked on the discovery at CERN.

[@BillRicker]

Reruns. Sigh. Needs a wrapper update.

[@larryo6874]

@@faisalrkhawaja My question too.

[@mkyfinn73]

Put a DATE in the title. Good God.

[@benjohncarlso]

I was also confused and opened the "open" section for a date and found nothing.

[@lasersbee]

Perhaps you should have added at the end that the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

[@WayneLynch69]

"ADDED?!" Put ANYTHING to reconcile the laws Einstein said would NEVER be overthrown, thermodynamics, and a universe of heat only that could not have begun (1st), and cannot be eternal (2nd...it would have distributed to wave; it hasn't). I understand they all have mortgages, kids and need to keep up appearances... BUT IT'S ALL A QUANTIFIABLE, EMPIRICAL FRAUD kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKjVi2Oifa2fjLM

[@Enn-]

Outdated by more than a decade, yet the video was posted just a few hours ago. BBC Earth Science, you can certainly do much better than this.

[@GreylanderTV]

Why are you posting this clip as if from a new or recent show with no mention that it is out of date? The Higgs particle was detected in 2012.

[@huberthancock2661]

Why are you posting this comment as if from a new or intelligent person?

[@SergePavlovsky]

@@huberthancock2661 because he is

[@rockets4kids]

The Beeb is having troubles figuring out this new-fangled internet thingie.

[@wavydaveyparker]

My mate Paul says, has Brian Cox seen this? The boson was found in 2012. Now where is the Graviton? The field is Energy. Energy is Mass. Mass is Inertia. Inertia is Gravity. The Earth and Moon are in orbital motion around a Barycentre. The tidal force is caused by the gravimetric tensor (T). QED - Quod Erat Demonstrandum, problem solved. _The Earth is not being pulled directly towards the Moon filling up bulges and leaving water behind!_ Quantum Electrodynamics. Thank you Paul.

[@evilclowntje]

You mean a Barry Shitpeas Centre, surely?

[@wavydaveyparker]

Brilliant! 😄 Are eyes made of atoms? My mate Paul said, he once tried to count all the atoms in his eyes, then he tried to eat a towel and ended up in the barry-centre hospital. Thanks, and don't call me shirley!

[@mojomogul]

You really pumped up that jam

[@wavydaveyparker]

It's funny you should say that, because my mate Paul said, the eye-opening thoughts presented in this mediocre documentary from 2008, eventually led to the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012, that revolutionised our understanding of particle physics, and was graciously received at the Swedish Academy to the toe-tapping sound of unrelated Belgium tecno anthem, *Pump Up The Jam.* 😆

[@CoreyLevitan1]

Why would you repeat this video when it’s no longer correct? The Higg’s Boson was discovered in 2012. Science is difficult enough to communicate, especially to those who religiously deny it, without deliberately stoking confusion. What’s wrong with you?

[@philipwright7186]

I think you'll find the Higg's Bison is a completely different animal.

[@jonathanmahon2035]

Newton has been proven incorrect so should we just throw his books in the bin?

[@foobos]

so what

[@simonnewman4240]

I think the question is, what’s wrong with you lol

[@jeffreywoodhead2682]

​@@philipwright7186and Higg's Bosun is a sailor

[@photographmaker]

Odd that this was posted now, as if unresolved and open ended like, when Higgs boson was discovered 12, 13 years ago at this point.

[@pukulu]

Lederman lived to be 96, dying in 2018. This video must be several years old.

[@oortcloud8078]

My mate Paul said, it's a matter of belief, we don't know how aeroplanes fly, we just have to believe that bosons keep them in the air. If we stop believing, then we'll all end up in a farmers field. Thanks Paul, I might just grab a jacket potato instead, and read my book.

[@jedibusiness789]

We know exactly how airplanes fly

[@oortcloud8078]

But can you explain it without using science? You can't can you. 😄 My mate Paul says the Moon doesn't exist.

[@ronvandereerden4714]

Is this proof of time travel? We're seeing 2008 as it was right now.

[@MrYerak5]

I should buy some stocks

[@amymonroe1818]

When I hear man is one step closer to understanding the universe, I wonder how many more steps left for this quest.

[@wavydaveyparker]

A journey of 13.8 billion light years begins with a single step called a big bang, followed by a rapid inflation of spacetime, which is why it gets dark at night. The universe had a birthday! 🎉

[@warrenlancaster286]

Spoiler alert Higgs was right!

[@rahilario]

Much respect to Prof Cox, but after seeing her recent special (Cunk on Life) I think now that Ms Cunk absolutely needs to be chiming in on everything he says. Their dynamic was my favourite

[@wavydaveyparker]

Mirrors are windows into other universes aren't they Ravinwe? My mate Paul says, they run on quantum power, and that's why we can see into an alternative dimension, in which everything is the same as our realm but backwards. Ask Neil Turok, he's a real physicists, and agrees with my mate Paul.

[@johnmalik7284]

The Higgs Boson is the observer. The observer measures mass in reflected, moving photons. The observer is the observed.

[@DigiDuit]

When/if its found, how can this new found "knowledge " be monetized?

[@billyrubine]

Let's not forget to mention François Englert, who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize with Peter Higgs for the theoretical "discovery" of this Brout-Englert-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble mechanism. But this video is quite a time-travel...

[@wavydaveyparker]

Mirrors are windows into other universes aren't they Brian? My mate Paul says, they run on quantum power, and that's why we can see into an alternative dimension, in which everything is the same as our realm but backwards. Ask Neil Turok, he's a real physicists, and agrees with my mate Paul.

[@deborahcassidy3705]

And what does Paul do for a living?

[@wavydaveyparker]

Well, he worked in a ball-bearing factory, and said he didn't need to be a popular physicist on television, when he's got his ball-bearings to keep him rolling, but he was fired from that, and now he's unemployed. Sorry! Am I wasting your time Deborah? 😐

[@deborahcassidy3705]

@@wavydaveyparker .....Yeah! 😆

[@wavydaveyparker]

@@deborahcassidy3705 You're right! ☺️ I do worry about Paul, I think he just hasn't found his true role in society, but just watch the video, it'll open your eyes. The Earth and Moon both orbit around a common centre of mass, and the tides are caused by the inertial forces from this revolving motion. That's what my mate Isaac said, the Crusaders never discovered anything like that did they? 😁 Thanks for the interview.

[@deborahcassidy3705]

@@wavydaveyparker Your mate Isaac might be on to something. Did you know that your sense of smell is faster than the speed of light? That's why you can smell bacon before you see it. It's called quantum bacon

[@collinsanyanvoh7988]

It's very important to keep in mind the known FACTS about the universe, because they are pieces of a puzzle which will eventually combine with the missing pieces to form the grand picture of physical knowledge. They also give us hints as to which QUESTIONS are worth pondering over, so that when the light bulb moment comes, the joy will be equally satisfying because it wasn't borne out of confusion

[@luisortega9299]

Finally I’m ahead of Brian; good news everyone the Higgs field was confirmed a couple of years ago and Dr. Higgs an others were awarded with the Nobel prize

[@vickydixon7512]

C=2πr ✖️ C=πd ✅ I managed to reduce a fundamental equation by 1 variable. This solves the wave function and fourier transformation equations, placing the periodic table into the electromagnetic spectrum showing that the periodic table is only 1/7 of the electronic spectrum and the electromagnetic spectrum is 7/7 of the periodic table of elements. The cross sectional area of the wave can be divided into new states of matter, while retaining their lineage with the electro-magnetic field which consists of an electric and magnetic field perpendicular to one another in every single wave including spectral lines "body temperatures" in Mass.

[@oortcloud8078]

Sounds interesting, but I didn't really understand most of what you typed, sorry. Although, why would you think that writing C=2πr as πd has reduced the equation by one variable? The (2) is just an integer. You had one variable (r) radius before, and one variable (d) diameter after. Of course the fundamental equation for the circumference of a circle, only works in a Euclidean geometry anyway, but that's another story.

[@TheSeta012]

And by detecting it in 2012 they proved the theory correct and therefore the standard model is the best model we have to describe reality.

[@derekwarren1548]

Throughout the universe on a grand scale, wherever there is more light, there is more gravity

[@RobertL-ct9np]

Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.

[@jcoop3660]

Mass is an attribute that gravity and momentum can act upon.

[@adolfohuet3974]

Imagine if we could confirm positrons exist, that would confirm Dirac’s theory wouldn’t it?

[@SteveNaranjo]

Not gonna lie, kinda hopping that Philomena Cunk show up in the video😂

[@michaelginever732]

This is bloody old. The boson was found to a certainty of 5 sigma at CERN way back in 2012. Exciting times.

[@BensBrickDesigns]

I can tell by Cox's hair that this is old. I like that you're posting stuff on the reg, but good lord how physics changes in 16 years.

[@containedhurricane]

The goddamn particle has been found in 2012

[@yarednegede6162]

The problem we face is basically from our understanding of how the universe begin.for me the universe begin by spinning and replication of premordial element at ultra high replicating speed .so the mechanism we use to aquire the beginning may be in the wrong direction.

[@masterwatch]

If you remember that most theories at this level they are "Theories"... But... Iron sharpens Iron and that is why we endeavour.

[@ljre3397]

Why not post the original release date of the video? Oh that’s right - clicks.

[@helicalactual]

It's not that they don't have mass, it's that the equivalence principle makes locality mutually exclusive. If you watch Claudia de rhams lecture, you will note In lecture 2, that covariance means no locality. And our model is disproving equivalence, provided nasa accepts the experiment and it goes well. This will allow for locality. 😊

[@travisinthetrunk]

I have an idea! Let’s post science videos that were outdated ten years ago.

[@superwhuffo1]

Has the Higgs particle been discovered? The Higgs boson was discovered, almost 50 years after first being proposed, by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN in 2012. But why did it take so long to find it? With a mass of more than 120 times that of the proton, the Higgs boson is the second-heaviest particle known today.

[@tonyroberts7481]

This is not even relevant to todays study so why post it?

[@optimusrimjob]

KY because yourself is one word.

[@jonathanmahon2035]

Yeah Nobody needs to know about Newton or Galileo either. What's the point? It's just old stuff and pointless right?

[@williambell6611]

You know 99% of Humanity is ignorant to any of this. If anyone can be educated even the slightest bit. Then fantastic

[@marketads1]

Neutrinos have mass. So light has mass. Yay!!

[@santimaspons]

Why is the BBC putting out videos with 360p-like quality?

[@MusicalRaichu]

this was obviously filmed over a decade ago.

[@SashaKuzikov]

*Don't panic! This is a program from a parallel universe where the Higgs boson has not yet been discovered. There was confusion. We apologize.*

[@mensurcehic413]

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is NOT a theory of “gravitation”

[@rcmakingtracks18]

Yep agreewe need the correct date up...

[@elizabird6516]

How was he not freezing with no coat, no hat or scarf, and inadequate footwear?

[@Jezusbeznogi]

My consciousness is trapped in a mirror now.

[@jjt1881]

What the hell!!!! This is a documentary from 2008 and it was uploaded by BBC Earth Science 2 weeks ago!!!

[@davechamberlin6522]

Yeah. this is old. But what lovely proof that good science can point you in the right direction. Retrospectively done by Einstein precisely explaining Mercury's (was it Mercury?) orbit.

[@wavydaveyparker]

Yes, Einstein did explain Mercury's pesky orbit, as he put it himself, without the need for any planet Vulcan. Which is what Newton's theory had predicted. Although, your excellent remark was more about the advance of science, by standing on the shoulders of the previous giants who have gone before. That's the real beauty of science, and your point was well made. Thanks.

[@AdityaMohan-t9l]

A Message to the Man (6:05) ,on July 4, 2012 Higgs boson will be Discovered. 🫡

[@98coxl]

Was this the LHC? Why are we getting such old videos...

[@Hyewe]

Never knew James blunt was a physicist

[@WringWaltd]

Hello, my postulate is that, at 0 Degrees, water freezes. At Absolute 0 physical matter stop moving, but that the Higgs Field can reach temperatures below the Absolute 0 of physical matter. It then condenses, or “freezes,” into many Higgs Bosons, and at its fullest, into hydrogen atoms, which happens fast, as they begin decaying as soon as they come into existence, which causes the area around it to ever so slightly heat up, limiting their size. If all other elements decay, hydrogen must also decay, as a “full-sized” hydrogen atom would be larger than what we weight one currently. It would be the reason that dinosaurs and everything was bigger, back in those day, because all atoms were lager in size. The Higgs Filed would be the 2nd Dimension, and have it’s own “cold Absolute Zero temperature” value. The First Dimension would be the Empty Space, which is never really empty, as it contains the 2nd Dimensional Higgs Field.

[@ayush8852]

Feels like you had a dream about it

[@Malins2000]

damn this video is older then the universe..

[@garyweise8233]

The real problem in physics is the belief of a beginning of things. There is not any science based reasoning to support the concept of a beginning. There is also not a science based reason to claim that everything must be supported by particles. Space devoid of particles is the origin of all things. There is not any need to claim anything else.

[@gazc00p]

Never gonna happen. No way there's a Higgs Boson. Oh wait..

[@MAMP]

LOL Brian, you have your answer now :D

[@bobbelleci9995]

BTW, can we disassemble the LHC now? ❓🤖

[@MrTaff22]

im no scientist but just a thought I have. what if matter changes its composition with vibrations. if you observe it from a distance its like a hologram but if you come closer it changes its vibration and becomes solid, you can touch it and it exists...you move away and its still there but its not real anymore. maybe the universe is a program, doing what its programmed to do. how do plants know what to do, they dont have brains but somehow they do what they do. have you ever noticed that if youre not looking at anything specific the world kind of stops? maybe you are meditating or are deeply immersed in a book somewhere in the park, how the sounds become almost non existent and from the corner of your eye you see a picture, not a living surrounding.

[@jcoop3660]

The higgs boson theory is from the 1960s

[@BigSnipp]

I loved Daydream Believer. Big fan!

[@scottryals3191]

Are you using a time machine?

[@lasaldude]

The ending of this clip aged well. lol

[@ruskinyruskiny1611]

"God alone suffices" St terese of Avila. "It is stranger than we can think" RBS Haldane. We are all mystics because we are all mystified.

[@jonathanmahon2035]

So many people moaning about this being old. Newtons wrong theory is very old, Einstein's theory is old too and known to be wrong but nobody shouts "this has been proven wrong". Just enjoy a bit of science for crying out loud

[@UltimateKyuubiFox]

It might confuse people. It needs an addendum.

[@funkelmine]

Earth is a Type 13 planet after all

[@sanchezrubwe1151]

Come on BBC. U uploading archives

[@jcoop3660]

Gravity can bend light, therefore light has mass.

[@EduardoHoefel]

Gravity is the bending of space time. It doesn't bend light. Light travels through geodesics of the curved spacetime. Light don't have mass.

[@RobertL-ct9np]

Mass is cold stored energy.

[@ran-huoshi7845]

Again, mass probably is more a stubborn illusion than TIME is?! ha ha ! long time no see Dr.

[@vegasflyboy67]

It just ends without revealing the discovery of the Higgs boson? Sketchy editing there.

[@michaelh.sanders2388]

Mass is frozen energy. Now just what is energy?

[@johnmalik7284]

Energy is information moving at speed limit, light speed. Frozen energy are photons reflected back to an observer who records it as data, as mass, causing a gravitational field.

[@prezlamen]

You cannot have field without emitter.

[@WilliamTheuer]

125 GeV is mass of Higgs boson

[@buffalosims5213]

It’s what makes stuff stuff. Love it

[@Vares65]

Why would you post such an outdated video? They found the Higgs Boson years ago.

[@anllpp]

Amazing to think of the nature of nature

[@ASNIV_]

Kinda interesting they fired her for this but did not fire many others who did far worse on camera. Might be something else going on with her.

[@chrisjohnson2460]

Hypothesis; The Nature and Properties of Light. A photon does have mass which is tenuated by time dilation due to velocity which is why it displays the characteristics of a wave even though it is a particle of matter. The Wave Function Interference Pattern is a false positive due to this same phenomenon. Because of the related time dilation which occurs as matter and energy approach the speed of light, the forces under which matter and energy operate are diminished, allowing for the tenuation of mass. This gives rise to the Galactic Speed Limit i.e the speed of light, because if matter or energy were to travel any faster the forces under which matter and energy operate could no longer have enough of an effect, resulting in matter and energy literally coming apart at the seams. In addition, when a Photon passes through a prisom it is divided into a descending scale of sizes and masses, each with it's own corresponding energy value which gives rise to different wavelengths and colors of light.

[@CasparvanderLinden]

Don't know what all this fuzz is about. We clearly know the answer already since the late 70s, early 80s. It is 42. Doesn't even need its own line. :D

[@Sezstu]

Appalling! 7 minutes I'll never get back.

[@friendlyskiespodcast]

This video came out in 1934

[@mobilephil244]

This is over a decade out of date.

[@snufkinmatt162]

Look very much like Yoda that man did.

[@Mr.Zen_73]

You should really put dates on these videos so we know if they're up to date or not. Watching this was a waste of time

[@theyearwas1473]

Cunk brought a lot of you here

[@kamcha123]

You look like a James blunt, who agree.

[@A-a-ron666]

We see old school science videos on KZbin all the time. I don't know why everyone is so bent out of shape. Most people watching a physics video already know the Higgs boson was discovered. Anybody with a new interest in physics will likely conduct more research. Chill out guys.

[@davidthurman3963]

Its just math modeling. Oh boy fun.

[@AndrewPawley11]

This is an odd choice of video to post in 2025.

Quite an outdated video.

[@jonathanmahon2035]

Yet here you are. Outdated science would be incredibly boring if we just dismissed the old, wrong stuff

[@CanusDirusx]

All of the sudden they started speculating on whether there is a Higgs boson. Hmmm, we may never know. 😄

[@Joeblow-k2n]

I found it I am right here

[@francodefazio431]

The standard model is incomplete and not compatible with current observations, the truth is we are in the blind as to the forces that exist in the universe and only get a glimpse. It is like taking swimming pool sized samples of water from the ocean and looking for the Loch Ness monster, just cause we dont see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist nor does it mean that everything in the oceans can be found in the sample size

[@chrisp7114]

Date the title

[@milemarker301]

yes, this was annoying

[@twelvestitches984]

The most difficult problem is the over inflated ego. If all of you didn't have over inflated ego's you would realize that gravity would never allow a big bang to happen. You would realize that the universe is much, much, much older than 13.7 billion years. You would realize that amino acids are not life. You would also realize that there are only 3 dimensions, not 4 or 5 or whatever number you pick. You would also realize that the infinity you are finding in your math is God.

[@lennysmileyface]

Gravity is the weakest of the forces though.

[@twelvestitches984]

@@lennysmileyface But it's cumulative while the other forces are not. Nothing escapes a black hole. All of the matter in the universe coming from the same location at the same instant wouldn't be a big bang, it would be a big black hole.

[@DLee1100s]

I spotted an error: (6:27 - 6:28) "... and despite billions of dollars worth of research,..." should be actually be "... and despite billions of dollars of research,...". !!

[@nancykralik6779]

Interesting but over my head a lot of

[@The_manufacturing_processes]

Are you high

[@superwhuffo1]

Why is so much information misleading these days 🙄

[@StanTheObserver-lo8rx]

I wasted a couple of minutes on fishwrap

[@rztrzt]

42

[@JenkoAndRoses]

Brian Cox is such an amazing science communicator! Thanks for posting this!

[@peterfoster161]

And sack the children who do the stupid graphics.