Im just an average normal person who love science but dont really know physics, and i've just read an article about Higgs Boson and i dont quite understand it. can anyone explain it in the simplest way for me to understand it?
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The Simplest Way:
It basically exists, and because of it's existence, items have mass. Thats how I can explain it simply, it's just the reason things have mass.
It basically exists, and because of it's existence, items have mass. Thats how I can explain it simply, it's just the reason things have mass.
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People in the media call it the "God particle" because they are idiots. They're making fun of how long physicists have been searching for it. It's a stupid joke. It has nothing to do with anything existing "before" the big bang.
The higgs particle is a tiny ripple in the "higgs field" that basically demonstartes the existence of the higgs field. The higgs field is something that exists everywhere and certain particles constantly bumping into it in a special way is what makes them seem to have what we think of as "mass". It also is involved in the way particles interact with each other in particle collider experiments, so it's important for a lot of reasons.
Please note that the higgs field is the reason why certain particles have mass, but not all of them. Electrons, for example, have mass because of the higgs field, but protons and neutrons have mass for a totally different reason. So most of the mass of things in the world is not due to the higgs, but it's still important because the mass of the electron matters a lot in our world.
The higgs particle is a tiny ripple in the "higgs field" that basically demonstartes the existence of the higgs field. The higgs field is something that exists everywhere and certain particles constantly bumping into it in a special way is what makes them seem to have what we think of as "mass". It also is involved in the way particles interact with each other in particle collider experiments, so it's important for a lot of reasons.
Please note that the higgs field is the reason why certain particles have mass, but not all of them. Electrons, for example, have mass because of the higgs field, but protons and neutrons have mass for a totally different reason. So most of the mass of things in the world is not due to the higgs, but it's still important because the mass of the electron matters a lot in our world.
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it is a type of elementary particle believed to have existed a very short amount of time after the big bang