What is a Higgs Boson?

Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln describes the nature of the Higgs boson. Several large experimental groups are hot on the trail of this elusive subatomic particle which is thought to explain the origins of particle mass. Note: There is an updated view of the Higgs at • Higgs Boson: The Insid...

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It should be noted that the Higgs Boson was discovered in 2012.

[@lovely_bones]

"the god particle", watch some people tremble now

[@patmaloney5735]

+Augusto Henriques HEATHEN!!

[@DC430]

The tremble comment is because physicists HATE that term. The nickname was invented as a joke in a book about the search for the Higgs boson, written by 2 atheists (Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi). It is a misleading term because it makes it sound as if it has something to do with divinity, which it doesn't, or that it is the fundamental particle that is above all others, which it also isn't.

[@terrypussypower]

Augusto Henriques "The 'God' Particle" is a moronic term, popularised by morons.

[@JEAthePrince]

terrypussypower actually ur wrong. The fact of the matter is, that matter shouldn't be, neither should energy, but they are because they should be. Don't you get it? Anything is possible

[@dhimanroyturzo6620]

and only 362 days later the higgs boson was discovered! Cool

[@MsMRkv]

Haha

[@nirmalsinghsingh4941]

Wow

[@georgedumoulin6844]

Did Eddy find it?

[@kchull9793]

@@georgedumoulin6844 He was too busy in Krispy Kreme

[@rugalbernstein5913]

"...my buddy eddy, who's no stranger to donuts..." *eddy tromps through the water chasing fearful kids* I'm dying, lmao.

[@aons5481]

Rugal Bernstein lmao

[@david26906]

Poor Eddy.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

So THAT'S why they're called eddy currents!

[@redosem9868]

Legends says he still chasing them

[@Kapitein2Stoot]

Hahahahaha that was awesome

[@ChristopherHartbooks]

Simple, clear, and engaging.

[@heatherwebber9747]

Christopher Hart n

[@paulleeg7455]

Not simple not clear unseen and in-between . billions of million's on a giant metal doughnut for pictures of light splashes if we all look like we know what were on about everyone will pay us to be space cadets and as close to being Jedi's as possible shhhhhhhh

[@stxfdt1240]

Christopher Hart By the way when are u westerners going to tell the truth that an Indian named S.N. Bose(Satyendranath Bose) discovered this particle.Why do u white people take credit for stuff we did in Science.

[@shawnscientifica6689]

@@stxfdt1240 That's more a commentary in the academic field than anything. There are hundreds of stories like that of scientist discovering something and the name and or the discovery goes to the person that popularizes it or filed that patent first. It's an unfortunate circumstance of life.

[@gallyun3363]

As things like this should be

[@Trackfanatic74]

"If you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein

[@Durzo1259]

Personally, I think "Higgs Boson" sounds more appropriate as a name for a Star Wars character.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

Higgs is named after Thomas Higgs, a Scottish sound engineer.

[@iCarilloninChrist]

+Durzo Pretty sure guy named Higgs Boson was in Jedi Academy with me before I got kicked out and banished.

[@kostantinos2297]

peter No. It's a trap.

[@paulleeg7455]

No he was a character in alien 2 .how did he get the gene made by God patented by God named after him why is he so special other than predator 2 I don't remember him being so great

[@paulleeg7455]

iCarillon inChrist are you a bit geeky

[@Mysteryskatin]

Liked this video for Eddy - shine on you crazy diamond.

[@muazqamar]

Liked for the reference

[@frankboff1260]

😂

[@georgedumoulin6844]

I'm a big fan already. He keeps stealing my donuts but for the rest he's really a cool dude.

[@Sealed_Chamber]

The esteemed duke of donuts.

[@LukeTheNotable]

I live right down the road from fermilab :D

[@Yash-Kadadi]

Between new Halo videos you can pop in and learn about particle physics! That's awesome :D

[@vanquishable7844]

How notable are you Luke

[@jimvetromila4562]

I use to drive by that joint all the time. Those scientists drive like jerks with there atomic powered cars.😆

[@MajorMatthias]

do you know eddie???????

[@edmund3504]

100 drops at fermilab

[@FlipCereal]

ahaha that analogy of the higgs field is gold

[@nickalgiere8280]

Take my like.

[@kffinn]

eddy is my spirit animal

[@masonbrown9155]

That's really cool that this was uploaded before it was descovered (125.3 gev)

[@miguelguerrero3394]

Jeffery Lebowski Hey Dude!

[@lovesmerlot]

Miguel Guerrero "But Dude!" Love that move :)

[@saintbabylon7250]

*abide* the dude.

[@bsilkwood8272]

Very true. Just as true as how well that rug REALLY tied that room together. :) -Donnie was way out of his element.

[@KafshakTashtak]

+Mason Brown I just had to check to see when this video was uploaded.

[@6Adolf6Hiller6]

Dr Lincoln, I love the way you explain all aspects of physics- very pleasant, interesting and engaging. I really look forward to your videos. Thank you for making a difficult subject so easy to comprehend.

[@uwaaa111]

I just watched another video that 'explains' what higgs boson is and that was 11 min. this is 3 min. and I understood it so well I can tell on what higgs boson is to my friends. well done.

[@Ray33416]

I dont know what water is

[@TibiSitibira]

+123DwyaneWade456 normal water is H2O ,heavy water is D2O (where no life is possible) ,you have also Deuterium and tritium (used in laser fusion reactors) where tritium is also produced in heavy water-moderated reactors (whenever a deuterium nucleus captures a neutron) 🌏 🌏 👣 🕚 💎💀☠☼☾☄ ₪itibira₪ ✶☥✨🌛🌄⊀⋉🐺🐾▲▴◭

[@kaktotak8267]

+123DwyaneWade456 Are you from California or just kidding?

[@darkstardomd9011]

+cman2223 where's california?

[@Bultish]

+123DwyaneWade456 therefore you voted this video down? ;)

[@Roman45070]

+Kakto Tak Bruh 😂

[@siddheshgorantiwar1182]

Please note that: This video was uploaded in 2011. Higgs boson was discovered in 2012.

[@karin5614]

Thanks! I'm a homeschooler, love Physics, and haven't gotten my head wrapped around the Higgs field concept and its implications yet, but this helped.

[@jeanettecook1088]

... then you might also enjoy heading Dr Sean Carroll in KZbin's The Big Picture... it is also an excellent lecture.

[@nnvyg1954]

I wish the US would have finished building the Superconducting Super Collider, not only would we have discovered many new particles and confirmed many particle theories (like the Higgs Field) and at 3 times the size of the LHC we would have discovered many other things not previously envisioned.

[@masonbrown9155]

Nnvy G Yep, have you seen that video of the congressman in '93 ranting about why we shouldn't? It's truly shameful to our country, but then again, this discovery didn't really have a national identity, it was a human achievement.

[@ovonisamja8024]

Nnvy G I think they were like, hey, why don't we let someone else do this, and we'll participate in some extent and in the end get the same thing out of it as we would have if we invested our own money in this grand project. Kinda makes sense if you think about it.

[@rationalmartian]

ovo nisamja Except it doesn't really make sense. The USA has made much of it's money from being at the cutting edge and exploiting discoveries first. The internet for one. I'm personally happy it moved to Europe, but would not have been if I'd been American. I would have viewed it as tragic. BTW, that's why they called the Higgs boson the "god" particle. To try to appeal to all the moronic religious Senators, etc who were then making the decisions. Didn't work though. Evidently. :-)

[@ovonisamja8024]

I think internet comes from CERN, right?

[@jovanpando5407]

Nnvy G Creating the Boson was a waste of money and time. "The boson, while providing crucial clues about how Nature works, doesn’t lend itself to technological applications. Most importantly, if you produce a Higgs, it will decay in about a zeptosecond. Simply put, Higgs bosons don’t hang around long enough to be put to much good use." Producing the Higgs Boson does nothing to cure the world of its ailments. The billions of dollars used to create it could have been put to better use. Scientists had already theorized that that Higgs Boson existed. This just confirms their beliefs and gives them a more firm understanding of our nature but they already knew it, theoretically of course.

[@BlaccEagle]

Excellently explained.

[@JMPGX]

This is the most simple and easy to understand video on this subject I have ever seen

[@thehulkplaysguitar]

The best explanation I have seen thus far. Thanks Don!

[@paulforester6996]

I love these videos. I would love to have this guy as my science teacher. The books I had about science were SO outdated even the teachers were discussed by it and told us this is outdated material. It should have been a crime, but the government don't admit mistakes.

[@crowneproductions9908]

Great presentation! Very clear and concise. AND THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES!!!!!!!!!! for not making a goofy joke out of science and presenting the material as though you were trying to teach it to middle school children. I just can't stand these youtube science shows with hosts who are 'goofing-out' about science to other adults. It dumbs down the weight of the material.

[@alanwang4178]

this helped a lot i looked at a lot of other videos to understand the higgs boson and higgs field this was much more clear.

[@handoflegion6078]

Simple and straightforward explanation , no fancy drama at all 👍👍👍

[@nikkitytom]

I have fretted and sweated through tedious discourses on the Higgs Boson and still emerged exhausted and confused. This is a beautifully presented clarification. Easy to understand even for people with a with minimal background in quantum physics. Thank you.

[@luckyyuri]

Higgs bosons are excitations in the Higgs field, they are manifestations of the underlying field. In the case of water and water molecules is the exact opposite, water is a consequence of pre-existing water molecules that come together. So, the example is very misleading. The Higgs field is everywhere, all the time, permeating the whole universe "from corner to corner". But the Higgs boson is a rare manifestation, that comes into existence when you "pluck" the field, and it goes away just like the vibrations of a piano string go away, with time.

[@user-re4pi4kq2e]

anywherein12seconds Do Higgs bosons have any function? And if, wich function do these have?

[@fvhaudsilhvdfs]

i also thought the example was misleading because particles don't have mass unless they interact with the higgs field; i.e., the higgs field gives them the property of having mass. but when you move through, you already have mass, and you're being slowed down depending on your shape, swimming ability, etc.

[@malcolmabram2957]

You are right. It is the Higgs field that gives mass. However such a field was theoretical until the discovery of the boson. A boson is produced when there has been a sufficiently large disturbance in a field such as the photon in the electromagnetic field around an atom. However the Higgs boson is so massive and short lived, it took the LHC to detect it. The boson itself, unlike a photon, does not exist in nature, but that does not stop the field existing, just like an atom in a stable situation emits no photons but that does not mean its electronic orbitals disappear.

[@michaelhansen7516]

Finally, someone that recognizes this video is garbage.

[@herringfly]

I can't understand why anyone would give this a thumbs-down? It's a great explanation and it was uploaded before the Higgs Boson was discovered.

[@michaelspurlock3096]

Thanks for posting this video. The explanation was easy to follow.

[@chandrarishabh]

We know that Higgs has mass of 125 GeV but that scraps out the possibility of SUPER-SYMMETRY which I think more suitably explains our universe but at the same time MULTIUNIVERSE option is no longer available, which I feel is good news. Anyways, physics has still lot more to discover.

[@phinilez]

It's mind blowing that they are able to build a machine like cern. Keep up the good work!

[@curiousturtle8260]

CERN is the name of the organization. The large hadron collider (LHC) is the machine.

[@jeanettecook1088]

It is the largest machine ever constructed.

[@Baldevi]

Thank you for the very simple but effective explaination ofthe Higgs field and the Higgs Boson, I can discuss thing with friends who are suddenly intersted in Physics because of the very recently producing James Webb Telescope. I do udnerstand it, but in a more technical and intrincis way, so this really helps me discuss now. And I love the timing of this video's release, since the announcement of the confirmation of the Higgs Boson was released very shortly after this. Since Don was part of the two teams working on the 'discovery' I am certain this was not a coincidence! Exclent work, I am really enjoying Fermilab's videos, having been diving into Physics and Quantum Theories again recently. Gotta catch up! Oh and long Live Einstien and Stephen Hawking! [I miss Professor Hawking... Now I have to lean on Brian Cox for a charismatic and easy to understand phsysicist for my Physics needs.]

[@MaloPiloto]

Well said, Dr. Lincoln. Very interesting and informative for us laymen!

[@itsiwhatitsi]

I want the same explanation by Filthy Frank

[@ethankolmel5118]

Itsiwhatitsi Oh fucking christ YES

[@liliaarsouli8551]

omgg XD yess

[@ankael8344]

honestly ''my buddy Eddy'' part already sounds like straight out of Filthy Frank show

[@jonasrla]

Thank you reminding me I am still on the Internet and memes are everywhere

[@harrygreenaway8003]

The higgs boson doesn't exist... ITS JUST A PRANK BRO 😂

[@scytheblood1656]

Looks like Eddie is no stranger to children too ;)

[@RS250Squid]

+Scythe Blood I thought he was going to say that Eddie was "made massive, by interacting with donuts" :D. Cool video though :D.

[@oadiugaoiasdyucsh]

+Andy B or children

[@danielvallah150]

+Scythe Blood snappppppp

[@smithjohn2085]

Be ware of the Eddie Boson young electrons.

[@RetroExhibitCollective]

Hahahhaah

[@uzairsaqib9298]

The best explanation so far.

[@ThatgirlinSeattle]

Thank you for that very easy to follow explanation.

[@LadyLion121]

You are a cool man, i finally understood it. You explained such a hard theory in less than 4 minutes in such a way that anyone can understand it. Thank you :)

[@arthurazoubel5344]

I wonder if this wouldn't be the old "ether" ideia of the universe

[@peterviens5118]

Arthur Azoubel. EXACTLY!! Only they used different terms to explain it , not having the contemporary references we use today. The 'scientific' personages of the time were having the same thoughts as now but had no graphics capabilities to assist with the usual problems encountered when attempting to describe an abstract concept to an audience which has little exposure to the arcane world of theoretical physics, nor the inclination to devote THAT much thinking to making sense of the universe, other than how it interacts with our pitiful insistence on being in control of everything around us.

[@MichaelColeman]

I had the same thought!

[@user-xb1wh5mt4l]

The Force? Especially the Force Telekinesis and the dependance of mass on Higgs Field. George Lucas predicted the discovery by more than 20 years.

[@ilovemydog6847]

Really interesting and easy to understand. Thank you.

[@manuhernz4431]

Very practically explained, which allows me to discover a few BIG MISTAKES AND MISCONCEPTIONS, which I will insert in my own paper to be published in SCOPUS. Thanks so much for the simple explanation with mistakes, not your mistakes but of the theory itself. It's like the big bang, with big mistakes, but it works in a certain level of uncertainty.

[@jesus_is_god_and_you_know_1669]

AWESOME!! HOW CAN I LIKE THIS MORE

[@ScottHoe101]

+OpenHax lololololololol

[@ariesfairies]

Eddie is a good sport :D

[@gavinwieland3707]

This video is super educating and so much fun

[@fCauneau]

Thanks ! Like each of your talks : so much clear ! One comment : so fun to see how Aether comes back as a new avatar. Surely there have never been any unique Aether hypothesis in science, but one word for very different concepts, and finally incompatible between them : this point led to the abandon of this concept with GR. But the "Dirac ocean" that led to QFT, and now this sea of Higgs bosons sounds like it. No matter anyway, Science and Particle Physics could live with or without it...

[@TheTruthKiwi]

Haha when he said it hasn't been discovered yet I was like wtf? Then I checked the date. Ahh, gotcha ;)

[@The3dgameplays]

Higgs boson discovered. :D

[@sagarbehera]

With 5 sigma probability 😎

[@partypao]

Thank you for explaining it so clearly

[@phxmarker]

Very good explanation.

[@abraxushellsing]

So it's a sub-subatomic particle through which other subatomic particles move and it gives them their mass based on how higgs field "dynamic" they are? Ok...

[@MastaChafa]

It's a field whose fluctuations (made with high energies) behave like particles.

[@Tomyb15]

Well, this is confusing. Other science channels on youtube actually explain that the higgs boson is just what you get when you excite the higgs field, but that the important thing is only the higgs field. This would explain why it was so difficult to detect, since one would think that if they made the higgs filed, they would be everywhere. The problem is that it does not make much sense with the principles of quantum mechanics, while this video's explanation does. Because in quantum mechanics, everything is made of quantised particles, even the fields. Unlike classical field theory.

[@benedictcoltman1983]

Excellent video, thanks!

[@TheScienceClassroom]

Awesome explanation of the Higgs Boson.

[@leonmaliniak]

This guy is GREAT... non-stop, error free presentation...and if he is in fact using a tele-prompter, he is doing it more professionally then most top ranked TV anchormen...very natural and entertaining. Even though I am just an imbecile of a former trial lawyer, I am an enthusiastic and somewhat well informed student of theoretical physics and a big FAN mainly because you never have to actually be right about anything or prove anything, so you can just make up fancy, UNPROVEN far fetched concepts like STRING THEORY and M-THEORY and surround them with intimidating and previously unused words like " membranes" and you can sound brilliant and intelligent because you can name things anyway you want and nobody can argue with you or prove you wrong. SO UNBURDENED BY KNOWLEDGE...LIKE MOST THEORETICAL PHYSICISTS, AND UNCONSTRAINED BY THE NORMAL BOUNDARIES OF HAVING TO ACTUALLY PROVE THINGS...LIKE IN REAL SCIENCE AND APPLIED PHYSICS...HERE GOES ; The more and more I learn about QUANTUM mechanics and its heavy reliance on the concept of UNCERTAINTY the more and more it sounds like a field where everyone is admitting that they really do NOT know how the universe is constructed and what the true basic principle characteristics AND PROPERTIES of matter are. Describing electrons as being able to be in multiple places simultaneously or nowhere at all seems to indicate a fundamental failure to understand the very nature of the constitution of matter and of the structure of the universe. It is not an explanation of knowledge about the truth...it is an example of ignorance about the truth. CONSEQUENTLY, WE ARE ALL FREE TO SPECULATE; HOW EXACTLY IS MATTER CONSTITUTED AND WHAT DOES OUR UNIVERSE REALLY LOOK LIKE ? The more and more I hear about the Higgs field and the Higgs boson, the more and more it sounds like the ancient Greek concept of the " ETHER " which also, according to their model, was a substance which permeates the empty space throughout the entire universe, all over and uniformly and which everything else interacts with. So now it's possible the ancient Greeks were probably right all along, and if so, there is no way that this primitive culture came up with this idea by themselves...but that is another subject. IS THE HIGGS THE GRAVITON ? If this Higgs field and the Higgs boson particles in it are the generators of MASS when objects interact with it , this would interestingly also coincide with what TESLA said 100 years ago about Gravity, when he disagreed with EINSTEIN and said that gravity was not just a " deformation" of space at all, but rather the " EFFECT" that space has on objects...and not the other way around, which was EINSTEIN's approach. A quick intuition seems to suggest that we could reconcile and tie all the missing elements of the standard model together by postulating that the Higgs boson is also the long sought after GRAVITON and that, in keeping with the main premise of the Higgs theory, that this is the fundamental force and particle in the Universe...which would then justify why it was originally tagged as the GOD particle. Add to this the possibility that EINSTEIN was also most probably and most assuredly wrong about the limitation on the speed of light, which TESLA also disagreed with and proved numerous times in his own REAL LAB experiments, and we begin to have the makings of a more logical and comprehensible UNIFIED THEORY which avoids the convoluted and nonsensical need for the eleven layered mutli-dimensional, OR WORSE, infinitely-dimensional world of string theory and M theory...I HAVE A VERY OPEN MIND AND ACCEPT THAT TILL WE KNOW THE TRUTH....ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IN OUR IGNORANCE...BUT TO SWALLOW THIS PREMISE TAKES A LOT OF ABANDONMENT OF COMMON SENSE. But, I think I will still take the BLUE PILL and see how deep this rabbit hole really goes...but not swallowing every wild notion, hook, line and sinker. I like the basic premise of string theory that the ultimate fundamental particle may be a uniquely small vibrating string...because everything seems to be about RESONANCE in the explanation of the behavior of matter, but beyond that the theory goes off the rails and becomes so convoluted and tortured as to seem totally implausible....and until they discover the GRAVITON...and identify the multi dimensional MEMBRANES, it will remain only that...a " theory ". Even if they identify this GRAVITON it will still require a major jump in logic and proof, beyond hypothetical mathematical equations, which are conveniently circular and self-serving, to prove that this GRAVITON travels between dimensions.

[@gerrynightingale9045]

Good for you! Virtually all of "QM" is conjectural actions of suppositional particle states. Any and all claims of discovery regarding the LHC results are speculations, not facts. "Castles in the Air" supported by calculus are examples of "proof by numbers" theories that have NO foundation of empirical evidence nor any other "real" validity.

[@leonmaliniak]

I LOVE how you put it. They invent mathematical descriptions of reality which are so convoluted as to sound like gibberish and all without ONE practical empirical piece of actual evidence....and then try to get reality to conform to their formulas...talk about putting the cart before the horse ! Until I see the first real WORM HOLE and the first eleven (11 ) dimensional space construct of STRING theory...I will still consider it to be the bizarre and unique realm of " theoretical " physics where you can say anything you want and use fancy words that make you sound novel and intelligent ALL without actually proving ONE thing !

[@gerrynightingale9045]

The concept of "worm-holes" been around since the 1930's, although the lay public would not have been aware of it until sci-fy got hold of it in the 50's. There is no real rationale to support "wormhole theory" as anything other than a mathematical "possibility" factor...and Einstein himself posited it as "untenable" as a persistent "real" condition. The whole question was really one of "what if entanglement of very strong gravimetric fields were to conjoin forming a nexus?" This question is nothing more than a theory "exercise" that has been elevated to the status "this could really work!" type of thinking, largely because of the idea that a distortion of the "timespace continuum" might present some sort of "short-cut" to other regions of the Universe! The entirety of the concept of "timespace" being bypassed is completely unworkable, even if "worm-holes" were real, and there is NO PROOF that such a condition exists anywhere, nor any significant reason to believe that they could exist!

[@leonmaliniak]

I agree with you and the same " fantasy " world exists with other " theoretical " physicist's constructs of reality...that's the beauty of being a " theoretical " physicist...you don't really have to invent or prove anything...JUST MAKE UP ALL KINDS OF FANTASY WORLDS AND USE EXOTIC NEW WORDS TO DESCRIBE THEM SO THAT YOU SOUND LIKE YOU REALLY KNOW SOMETHING NOBODY ELSE DOES. But, I still LOVE them because ALL REAL SCIENCE STARTS WITH THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS...I do it myself

[@justben863]

Worm holes cannot, theoretically, be made now. It would take all the energy in the universe to do so. But, mathematically speaking, they could have been made during the big bang. And if you are waiting to "see" one you should drop the instant gratification. We've only just begun searching the universe. These things take time to discover. 10 years ago, we could have made these same arguments about black holes. Yet, if we had, we'd be left hoping everyone forgot we said that in hopes of not looking like negative Nancys.

[@nexsit6837]

damn, i love physics..

[@AlexTheG9009]

Best explanation yet.

[@rkp8495]

the most underrated channel on KZbin

[@niteshmaruthi8784]

This video is from 2011. Higgs boson has been discovered now. Cheers to the great scientific minds !

[@renegarza2226]

"no stranger to doughnuts"

[@m_i_g_5108]

No, he said donuts -- not doughnuts, you silly goose! 😂😂😂

[@TJ_Morgan]

@@m_i_g_5108 well if you turn on captions it does say doughnut

[@mbarraicua]

Thanks, Don. You are the best...!

[@mistycat1]

I couldn't make heads of tails of the Higgs Boson until now. Don Lincoln did a great job explain it.

[@AlfonsoGer1]

Cada nuevo descubrimiento, provoca mas incógnitas: Los instintos, los reflejos y la memoria, ya se están analizando con verdadero interés, porque los idiomas son los que hacen crecer la inteligencia pero al parecer, nadie ha podido explicar, cuando? como? y por que? aparecen el cerebro y sus diferentes áreas. He buscado respuestas desde hace mucho tiempo en Internet y aun no encuentro una que pueda comprobarse.

[@graciapatricia1]

Estudio ingles..,. haber si experimento eso..,. mi madre tuvo una mente privilegiada hasta el final, la tuvo activa siempre, llevaba el control a todo.., hablo de trabajo.., hasta el final estuvo ahì.., y por ello hay que preocuparse de hacer cosas que nos enriquezca, para tener la mente despierta. En el colegio estudie francès, me encanta su sonido, y al no practicar, ya casi lo olvide.., hice mal de no conservarlo, ahora lo harìa, asi que os aconsejo si me leis que coserveis ese tipo de cosas, es bueno para la mente, y comunicarnos. Buenos dias a todos, buenas noches, para los que estaìs en la noche..., yo de dia.. BAY

[@AlfonsoGer1]

Mi abuela murió a los 97 con su mente despierta, porque aprendió a ser independiente y "hablaba con Dios" y sentía AMOR.

[@graciapatricia1]

Veo muy importante saber ser sociable, y independiente a la vez, es bueno para la vida. Sentir a Dios es un gran regalo, todo el mundo no tiene esa suerte, y eso lo puede sentir todas personas de buena voluntad, aunque fueran ateas, si son de bien, tienen a Dios con ellos, es el hacer y comportamiento, eso es lo que vale en realidad. En las primera etapas de la vida, es posible que se sea, mas de obrar poco, .., y de signos externos, es bueno hablar con Dios, te da fuerza, si hablas mucho y no haces, eso no vale para nada.., con la madured, es cuando se repara, en esos fallos si se tienen, que es por la educaciòn que te dieron, hay quien se queda parado, y otras personas evolucionan, intentando mejorar y logrando ser mas felices.e

[@AlfonsoGer1]

Amor y sabiduría nos dan felicidad y creo que eso es sentir a Dios dentro de nosotros y no encerrado en una iglesia.

[@graciapatricia1]

Aunque vaya la iglesia de vez en cuando es por parar, en caso contrario si se va deprisa, a veces no te detienes. Dios està en todas las partes, y puedes tenerlo en tu habitaciòn andando por la calle, y en los àrboles, los animales, en nuestra sonrisa, y si se siente amor se siente ganas de reir, de saltar, y dar mucho mas amor todavia a todo el mundo, eso no lo provoca cualquier cosa, suelen ser personas especiales, un paisaje fantastico, o una persona que te encuentras por casualidad vecina etc, y te cuenta sus cosas sin conocerle, como me paso a mi ayer, con una señora que cuincidi al salir de mi casa, se ve ya, te desarman,y las escuchas, das amor sin conocerlas de nada. Por todo ello aunque intentes amar a todo el mundo no es posible,es algo que sale se siente, y no se puede obligar a nadie, si no siente, es imposible, podras estar, por circunstancias, pero sin amar. Cuando ocurre algo asi, es por algo importante, si la persona es de bien.

[@TeddyKrimsony]

I may not know what Higgs Boson is, but I sure as hell know Mrs. Higgs Bosom ;D

[@Rahuljhakash]

higs boson isn't a single person go and read

[@NyxRavenna]

This is the best explanation that I have heard so far, better than the animated video that i've just watched from ted-ed . My next doubt would be why do you think the particle you have found is or not the Higgs boson, what are the characteristics that it would have to fulfill for being or not being a particle of the Higgs field¿?

[@kavyaremesh8083]

The most simplest version.... Thankuuu

[@1130Danny]

That's how I like my science: with fat-shaming

[@raoulduke6245]

how can a top quark weigh as much as an entire atom of gold? i thoght the protons and neutrons of the gold atom consist of dozens of top and down quarks. can someone explain?:)

[@akilham77]

There are actually six different quarks. Up, down, top, bottom, strange and charm. Everyday protons and neutrons are made up of three way combinations of up and down quarks. 1 up quark has a charge of +2/3 and 1 down quark has a charge of -1/3. So two up quarks and a down quark make a proton, which as you most likely know has a charge of +1. And one up quark and two down quarks make a neutron, 0 charge. There is a LOT more to quarks though so if you really are interested you should check out this site hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/particles/quark.html

[@6Adolf6Hiller6]

***** And we probably never will, but the human need to satisfy his natural curiosity will engage us until the end of time.

[@Silverchild07]

Did you noticed, that you didn't get an explanation? "It just does", LOL. So, here is my answer: If a gold atom is basically made out of quarks, one quark CANNOT have more mass than the whole atom, period! Why do we need to spend billions of dollars for a collider to figure that out? Oh, right, "we just do"!

[@yuriimaravin6622]

There are six quarks that are known to men as of this moment. Most of all the stuff around you is made from a so-called "first-generation" quarks - "up-" and "down-" type quarks. Those are the lightest. Top is one of the most heavy ones and indeed it is as heavy as a gold atom. Ninja is right - we currently do not understand why top interacts with the Higgs field so strongly (why it is so massive) - we are keep looking for answers :)

[@TheBrothergreen]

Silverchild07 your explanation has the distinct honor of being wrong. regardless of the fact that gold atoms are made of multiple quarks, A top quark, differentiated only by the direction of its spin has as much mass.

[@oppanheimer]

Awesome explanation. Thanks.

[@royal23]

Great explanation, thanks!

[@moapaname]

Higgs Boson now confirmed , this is great !

[@wikieditspam]

Is it really that scientific to have a preconceived idea about how everything fits together and then look for something that confirms your beliefs? Did they have an idea of exactly what characteristics it would have and then find a particle that exactly matched their predictions?

[@anas8183]

I work at kfc what am I doing here?

[@jackma77]

Absolutely brilliant, thank you so much!

[@heavenbot]

Ah, looking back at these videos, Dr. Lincoln looks so young! You've aged like a fine wine, sir.

[@prosinger117]

And just recently, they've discovered the Higgs Boson actually really exist, which in turn made the theory a fact! :)

[@johnrubensaragi4125]

2011 is 11 years ago????? What?????

[@brett7661]

As always, clear and informative. I would, however, like to understand how this field differs from earlier concepts like ether.

[@elementallobsterx]

Excellent video. Keep it up!

[@DueRag]

hmm seems legit

[@easfgman4687]

lmao "no stranger to donuts"! is that phd in comedy, dr?

[@IPabloneCabrone]

Awesome explanation!

[@prabhchahal4492]

Probably the best explanation of higgs particle

[@naralaiho]

I consider myself an atheist. I find it pretty interesting, however, that these modern discoveries seem to point towards the direction of ancient eastern philosophy. Buddhists and Hindus think of "god" in terms of the basic energy, unlike us westerners who imagine the cosmic father.

[@Lassana_sari]

naralaiho buddhists do not think of god at all. buddhists are atheists.

[@rachitjoshi6931]

අපර්ණා සෙව්වන්දි Buddhists believe that the "truth" or the energy is inside all, around all.

[@kingrobert1st]

I recommend the Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra www.amazon.com/Tao-Physics-Flamingo-Fritjof-Capra/dp/0006544894

[@onewish6944]

No stranger to donuts lo

[@onewish6944]

L

[@notatechie]

You left me hanging there Rook. It was very uncomfortable.

[@Marconel100]

lo L

[@redist4369]

Simple and Engaging. I love it ❤

[@AaronFruman]

Thanks for the explanation!

[@davidsherburne8429]

I'm getting dumber by the day.

[@easfgman4687]

David Sherburne i hear ya. maybe ill go the "i believe in god" route. seems to be easier than this scientific babble.

[@holytrashify]

nothing wrong with being dumb, unless there is, jelly fish are dumb and dont have brains, they just float around, float around, let the waves swish swash them, here and there

[@Marconel100]

Some people are like jellyfish, follow the flow and the rest of the sheeple and believe what they believe.

[@josemanuelgomez2501]

On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announced they had each observed a new particle in the mass region around 126 GeV. This particle is consistent with the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model

[@nancywoodellmccracken9136]

It is an organism at this point that connects the fermions that we are made of in place. That' what the last lecture smarixed. I have listened to do much of this Makeshift hubris, I need to

[@UrgeidoitNet]

great work!

[@toddherron4832]

And one year later -- almost to the day -- experiments confirmed the existence of Higgs Bosons (on July 4, 2012). Incredible!

[@elaadt]

I looked up definitions of Eddy and found that in a fluid, an Eddy is a current going against the direction of the main current. You typically get eddies behind an obstacle or around a bend. This would explain the greater resistance "experienced" by larger (more massive) objects. The only mismatch is that in the video, Eddy is the obstacle, not the counter currents behind him. Other than that, great video.

[@carolsparks7286]

Omg that is so hard to wrap your mind around. This is really an incredible world. Hats off to those who understand what makes it tick.

[@TruthAboutExistence]

This is a great way to look at the Higgs Boson. Since I am also a physicisT then I like it that this type of instruction is being done.

[@Inertia888]

Great explanation.

[@brianbraga523]

finally, a good explanation of the higgs boson and field:)

[@Nikhil_3239]

Very clear explanation good

[@kp8129]

So pretty much the Higgs field is like a fluid or a medium in space through which all matter interacts, just like the water which all sea creatures live in. pretty interesting.

[@jspin3609]

holy crap i love these videos

[@taihatranduc8613]

you are such a real expert

[@floreentan1188]

Dr.Lincoln are you the one narrating on TEDed?? Please make more animations so the children can enjoy science that way. I love how ur explanations are easy to understand!

[@fermilab]

The update (Part II, if you will) is in the description - unfortunately one has to click "more" to see it.