I just need a few things cleared up.
I understand that an atom is made up of proton, neutron, and electrons.
So this discovery of the Higgs Boson, is this suppose to be the subunit of these subunits?
or am I really off track?
I'm probably wrong, so I might as well ask here,
what then, is Higgs Boson? super simplified. I just want an idea to be back on track, then I can be off on my own research. thanks!
I understand that an atom is made up of proton, neutron, and electrons.
So this discovery of the Higgs Boson, is this suppose to be the subunit of these subunits?
or am I really off track?
I'm probably wrong, so I might as well ask here,
what then, is Higgs Boson? super simplified. I just want an idea to be back on track, then I can be off on my own research. thanks!
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Don't expect to 'focus your mind' on quantum particles.
They aren't anything like anything remotely familiar to you.
Even the word 'particle' is just a convenient expression for something
with an uncertain but interdependent wavelength, size, motion, mass, spin, charge.
The Higgs is the 'particle' that provides 'mass'.
They aren't anything like anything remotely familiar to you.
Even the word 'particle' is just a convenient expression for something
with an uncertain but interdependent wavelength, size, motion, mass, spin, charge.
The Higgs is the 'particle' that provides 'mass'.
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Protons, neutrons, and electrons are made out of quarks. The Higgs boson is a particle that gives things mass. The Higgs field permeates the universe, like a gravitational or electric field, and everything that has mass interacts with it. Massive particles (like protons) interact with it a lot, less massive particles (like electrons) don't interact much. The Higgs boson doesn't make any of the particles, it just gives them a particular property (mass).
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An analogy that I've heard is if you and President Obama were to cross a room full of reporters. Obama would be immediately surrounded by reporters and would have a hard time getting across the room but you could just scoot over. For some reason, Obama attracted a lot more mass than you did.
When I hear of the Higgs Boson, I remember how as a child I watched the meniscus of a glass of water and how it would wet the sides of the glass and of anything I put in it. If I sprinkle small things in, each would form it's own region of water tension and if I sprinkle really small things in like pepper, they would swirl around the other pieces as if pulled in. As a child, I thought it was a model for the curvature of space, time and mass and that they were really all the same just at different densities and concentrations with the forces being tensions, that is the universe being just surface tension of something. Yes just the musings of a child but remember that I knew nothing about special or general relativity at the time. My parents thought I was messing up my glasses of water.
When I hear of the Higgs Boson, I remember how as a child I watched the meniscus of a glass of water and how it would wet the sides of the glass and of anything I put in it. If I sprinkle small things in, each would form it's own region of water tension and if I sprinkle really small things in like pepper, they would swirl around the other pieces as if pulled in. As a child, I thought it was a model for the curvature of space, time and mass and that they were really all the same just at different densities and concentrations with the forces being tensions, that is the universe being just surface tension of something. Yes just the musings of a child but remember that I knew nothing about special or general relativity at the time. My parents thought I was messing up my glasses of water.
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The Higgs boson, like all other bosons, is a force-carrier particle. The discovery of the Higgs boson completes the Standard Model of physics and is associated with a field, the Higgs field, that gives all other particles their characteristic masses.
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Your question is in the Yahoo Answers Astronomy area, but it probably would be better answered in the Physics area. You will have to re-enter your question and ensure it is routed to a more appropriate area.
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Super simplified the Higgs boson gives rise to the Higgs field which permeates space. As other particles pass through this field, their mass is established.
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Try asking physicists instead of astronomers.
Cheers!
Cheers!
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It's like the covering of a corn dog.