What Gave the “God Particle" Away?

Did you know that it’s actually impossible to observe the Higgs boson? The Higgs boson decays incredibly fast and has a lifespan of just 1 zeptosecond. No instrument we can make can snap an image of it fast enough, but it is possible to see what it turns into when it decays. In the third and final episode about the Higgs boson, Julian talks about how scientists actually found it in the first place.
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The Higgs itself may be impossible to detect, but it is possible to see what it turns into when it decays. It prefers to decay into particle-antiparticle pairs that have a similar mass to itself. That means the particles it will most likely decay into is a bottom quark and an antibottom quark. A bottom quark is a heavier relative of the quarks that make up protons and neutrons.
More than half the time the Higgs boson decays into a bottom-antibottom pair, but that doesn’t mean that’s the only thing scientists were on the lookout for. The Higgs boson also decays into pairs of W bosons and other particles we haven’t talked about yet like Muons and Tauons. That’s assuming a collision of two protons makes a Higgs boson at all, which isn’t a guarantee.
When the scientists at CERN examined the data from billions and billions of collisions, they concluded the particles they saw at the energies they saw could not be accounted for without a particle like the Higgs boson to a certainty of 5 sigma. They revealed this monumental finding to the public on July 4th, 2012, and there was much rejoicing. Still, they wanted to be extra sure this wasn’t some Higgs-like impostor, so they analyzed 4 times more data. Finally, after looking at over two and a half quadrillion collisions, they decided that was probably enough for them to confidently say they had found the bona fide Higgs boson.
With that, the last puzzle piece of the standard model was put in its place. So we’re done here, right? We know everything? No, of course not. Finding the Higgs boson doesn’t mean there’s nothing left to discover in particle physics. In fact, the Higgs boson actually hints at more questions, some tantalizing and some terrifying.
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[@DNewsPlus]

What do you think the LHC will find next?

[@jedipadwan20]

A wormhole through time

[@christopher.j.m]

@@jedipadwan20 that's the last thing you would want, John Connor

[@jedipadwan20]

@@christopher.j.m why if I was as smart as doc brown I would make a time machine out of a car with it having face or eye scanner to my face or eye and no one could used it.

[@viswajithn4304]

Lhc never find a politician who says truth

[@christopher.j.m]

@@jedipadwan20 uhh, because terminators

[@klimatsabeltand4780]

I could listen to you talking about the higgs boson ALL DAY

[@benoitferland]

Likewise! Keep it up!

[@conanobrian8580]

5:45 very personal. Looked very deep into his eyeballs for that analogy.

[@nuggetonastick1804]

It’s a shame these videos don’t get more views great content keep it up!

[@Li.Siyuan]

Without links to find the other parts of this series, it's very difficult to find them all, especially part 2!

[@jeremywarren7424]

First I'm seeing of this miniseries, KZbin isn't doing y'all any favors because part 1 & 2 never showed up on my feed. Please keep up production of content like this, people (including myself) want to learn but need good instructors, like you, to break it down since we're not physicists lol. Seriously though, love the videos!

[@jedipadwan20]

I didn’t know he did a part three or final part to this miniseries till I went on his channel

[@allisonjasso2249]

This series was great!! Info relayed excellently and entertaining. Watched all of it at once. Keep it up!

[@huntercollins1310]

So colliding particles are like a box of chocolate? We never know what we're going to get. 😂 I love it! Always gives us something new to learn.

[@dreamer2488]

Just love your videos keep going Thanks :)

[@johndavis6338]

2: 37 - There's is a probability that a collision will create a Higgs - Boson.

[@llln13]

I would like to learn more about gravitational waves and how they move in the universe. Also their speed of movement.

[@localverse]

They move at the speed of light. I'm not sure how they move but think of it like this: it's a sudden shift in location of gravity that then drifts outward like a wave at the speed of light. That's probably why we can detect them from black holes that orbit at crazy speeds while during their merging. At one instant a black hole is at one spot, then at another instant it has moved quite far, so the effect is like replacing a powerful gravity at that spot with a sudden drop in gravity and then a sudden increase in gravity, and so on, or a wave pattern.

[@clientesinformacoes6364]

By looking at relatvily theory and kinetic energy formula, the mass comes from the resistance against space time, but the structure of space time must be elastic so, when we pushes an object, we are in fact pushing space time. Space time in my point of view, squeezes an object equally in all directions, so the object doesn't move until we apply a force, but because it has been proven that nothing go faster then light, it takes some time to the the wave generated in front of the object from the direction we applied the force to pass through and squeeze the object to the other side, this creates a perpetual motion, the expansion of space time around the object is the Kinect energy. I think gravity works the same way, 2 objects close to one another has more open space of space time in between them, because space time is elastic, they are always connect, as I mentioned above, if one object disappears, it takes the speed of light to the other object responds. If we understand better the elasticity of space time which may have some variation, we could change the E=mc2 formula to precisely understand better the forces in a small scale and variation of waves in different scales.

[@migbham1]

My god, even the comments sections on this channel make me realize how dumb I am.

[@ridetheapex]

You don't know what a cation is? Some engineer you are. Lol

[@jordanamber1218]

This is a topic about physics...

[@ridetheapex]

@@jordanamber1218 I know... McToon did a video a while back and the guy that claimed to be an engineer had no idea what a cation was. Toon had to explain it to him for a good 10 minutes and he never really got the concept. Insisted on it being cation and not cat ion. Heh

[@JeffGeers-kz9lj]

THIS SHIT BLOWS ME AWAY!. You are very smart, Im guessing you have a PhD in physics, and i have to re watch some of the 3, and im not stupid im more psych then math...BUT you do a fantastic job of dumbing it down for a bad at physics guy. I still am a bit lost, but the PROBABILITIES factor is SO key in all science of any kind...I heard about the Hadron Collider in Europe, no clue the USA was working on one. The data collection and massive scale and cost is just insane...but cool

[@bringtheideas460]

Are you telling me we already have Thanos snapper, but it just snaps the entire universe from existence?

[@Daeva83B]

Soo.. our best theory is.. fields right? And the atom smasher, smacked those particles so hard that it shook the higgs field (and many other fields) and knocked a higgs particle out of it. That we then indirectly could observe. Is that about right? Do i get the 'gist' of it all? Haha. I'm trying to form a picture in my mind, but it's so hard. Also i think we are wrong and our ideas of reality will change drastically. When and what our next best guess is, i have no idea. But my personal favorite is quantification, quantifying space itself. My non scientific idea for example the expansion of the universe is actually a random space particle popping into existence. The more space between you and the object, the higher the chance of a space particle popping into existence what we perceive as 'the further an object is, the faster it moves away from us'. But got nothing to back it up with, it's just a hunch ;) I'm still talking out of my arse, but Dark matter for example. With quantification and space-time in the back of my mind. Plus the following prediction by Einstein and proven (i think.. hehe, correct me if i'm wrong). The rotation of earth drags space-time. This is proven, right? If i'm not mistaking, they tested this by shooting a satellite around earths orbit and having a gyroscope in it and measuring the drift of it. Something like that, i think. So my idea and thinking is (is it mine? I just never heard someone saying it): What kind of effect might a bunch of stars that orbit a massive blackhole have on space-time? It seems logical to me that the space-time is also being dragged by all those massive stars orbiting the same blackhole. Therefore what we see through our telescopes looks like those stars are orbiting to fast and i think it's because we didn't took space itself into account that is moving with the stars. (compare it with current to form an image, swim with the current and you go faster). But what we do now, is saying: "It's extra matter what we simple can't detect". I don't know, i'm not buying it. :p Haha, Says the village idiot. ;)

[@rickkey4226]

Not idiot. Check into Michaelson-Morley, substitute space-time for ether.

[@jessiferri2922]

Very entertaining video, thanks Julian

[@thomascorbett2936]

So what's the God particle made of , God ?

[@ponyote]

Billions and billions. Look out for Sagan here yall.

[@nicovandyk3856]

You used the capital sigma sign for STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE which is incorrect (That is used for the sum of). You should’ve used the lower case sigma. The sigma you refer to is not a measurement of “random fluctuations”, it is a measure of statistical significance; or simply put: It is a measurement of certainty (In this case, certainty that the distortion of the randomly generated particles had to be due to the Higgs Boson and not random chance) 😉

[@jonlenin1977]

Just a question so when two protons collide is there a chance to create a black hole It may be stupid question but I'm interested in knowing 2:30

[@beatbox20fmj]

Did a quick check bc 5 quadrillion protons being smashed together sounds like a lot, but that wouldn't even be close to a mole of hydrogen gas. Math may be off but from my numbers they've used a fraction of a liter of hydrogen to make all those collisions.

[@epicmatter3512]

There is 6.02x10^23 molecules in a few grams of hydrogen gas. A fraction of those particles are protons so about 10^23 protons in one gram of hydrogen. A quadrillion is equivalent to 10^15 and so there are 10^8 times fewer protons than are needed for on mole or a few grams of hydrogen gas. 10^8 is equivalent to 100 million. So about 20 million times more particles until they smash together one mole of hydrogen gas.

[@nermanus]

Mass Relays, when?

[@redneckshaman3099]

I'm addicted to pigger nussy 😎

[@beeyondblessedorganics945]

Have they already done this experiment if so where?

[@fluffyfloof9267]

In case you didn't know; the cat ion is the cutest ion, it's positively charged with delightful fluffiness. The Mewon is cute as well, but different. :3

[@Rivindrid]

🤣 love it

[@fluffyfloof9267]

@@Rivindrid You're welcome! I "stole" this meme from someone who twote it on Twitter. It's a derivative work LOL

[@SeeNickView]

Man, this kind of stuff is why I want to move away from engineering towards physics in my career 😅

[@Un_Pour_Tous]

No Gawds

[@creativeconsonance]

Dark matter is consciousness. Not a particle by the traditional definition but clearly composed of something. Expressing concepts & dimensions traditional frameworks cannot accommodate as they have no language to explore...

[@ngtony2969]

Stop making shit up and chaining random big words together into senseless garbage or you'll be prone to religion and sound like deepak chopra or jordan peterson

[@eyeln9ne696]

Make sure you keep your young bytes away from those perverted petabytes....

[@Turquoise_Chain]

Beautiful Vibration.

[@fluffyfloof9267]

I think you chose the wrong analogy - ignoring/discarding data is not the same as retaining/recording the data in "the recycle bin".

[@chris432t6]

Our sun is predicted to nova in the fall of 2046. What happens to the LHC when the grid goes down?

[@HarpreetSingh-xg2zm]

My understanding is that claim is unproven and is a doomsday rumor.

[@hpwilliams0]

You don’t understand what nova means

[@ngtony2969]

with that garbage comment up there, I have a feeling you're religious ....

[@beautystandard6083]

You can't explain omnipotence , let khaos do that , if you put Greek mythology together with science you'll get that God particle , in the flesh , in order for everything to uphold the good particle had to form itself, that's fact

[@beautystandard6083]

Energy created everything , not mass but matter physical matter out of energy , no spirit either , mass is size in length and width equal on all sides , symmetrical

[@jasin9142]

Hai

[@LaMajMassage]

God particle is a “sexy name”!!!!??????? You can’t say sexy to anything related to god

[@Lamtipul]

1st

[@kj55]

Me 3rd

[@fluffyfloof9267]

I don't enjoy religious references in scientific titles.

[@christopher.j.m]

so?