The race to find the Higgs boson
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 was the culmination of decades of work. In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don gives us a taste of the sprint to discovery.
Explanation of Higgs Field/Boson-
Fermilab video: • What is a Higgs Boson?
TEDEd video: • The Higgs Field, expla...
Tevatron Higgs announcements-
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July 2010 exclusion:
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LHC Higgs announcements-
Summer 2011:
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Fermilab physics 101:
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Fermilab home page:
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Prof. Peter Higgs (RiP) was one of my Professors at Edinburgh University away back when. A very polite and studious chap but sociable with his peers. The academic community in Edinburgh will miss his presence moving on.
A thank you to the support staff!! In my 30 year academic career, I never heard such gratitude except when I gave it.
As a nerd myself, seeing those old pics of the Good Doctor, was... refreshing. I plan to visit Fermilab. I hope to see him. I'll gush like a fool. lol
They never allow me to visit & I live the next door to Fermilab for years 😒
And in my opinion time has been very kind to the good Doctor
@@ronfisher5259 it's improved him. He's superior now.
@@xinpingdonohoe3978 oh I totally agree
Abdus Salam should have received a prize just for that extremely dapper jacket.
hell yes
He did receive a Nobel prize for his work here
A Nobel Prize for Dankest Drip, if you will!
I see it as a team effort. Fermilab ruled out many masses, narrowing the range other capable experimenters had to search through.
Did LIGO do the same thing? What happened with the Graviton? Did it get stuck inside the Black Hole?
@@ryanchicago6028 no
@@aaronmicalowe Someone has to deal with the fact that the Graviton cannot exceed the speed "c". This would imply that the black hole could not provide any gravity from the interior. The particle theory of gravity would not ever work with a black hole.
@@ryanchicago6028 ok
if the americans discovered it, i bet, you wouldnt see much of a team effort., but all american pride ( because america first and stuff).
The moment they cut to Peter Higgs during the announcement still makes me cry every time.
Ok, super interesting video, but I am still left wondering how the Higgs Boson was discovered! Lke, what kind of data are you getting out of a collider. How can you exclude the Higgs from certain mass-ranges. And how do you then confirm the finding? I suspect that there is a LOT of background stuff I am missing here, but it would be nice with a Colliders for Dummies video ;)
Give your tax and ask nothing you peasants 😄😄😄 The real knowledge is only for elites, not for inferior taxpayers 😄
Just to to confuse you more nobody has ever detected an actual Higgs Boson, just the particles formed from its breakdown
I'd love to explain it to you, but I don't have 45 minutes to sit down and write a 3000 word essay on the subject.
I will give you the basics:
We already know about most particles, even the ones you dont get in nature. This is known as the particle zoo. All these weird particles you only get when you smash atoms together, made of 2 quarks instead of 3, or made from the heavier versions of the particles we're familiar with (Tau particles for instance, which are very heavy electrons). So we already know how much that stuff weighs and what it breaks down into. For instance, if memory serves, the Tau particle breaks down into an electron, a positron and a Tau-neutrino (edit: I bothered to check, I was wrong, it breaks down into a Tau-neutrino, an electron and an electron-antineutrino or it breaks down into a Tau-neutrino, a muon (another heavier version of the electron) and a muon-antineutrino)
So we ramped up the energies involved in the collisions and waited to see what happened. At this point, they found a "bump" in the data. That bump was from the particles that the Higgs breaks down into. We're talking billions of collisions at this point and a tiny "bump" in the data, but once they analysed the particles flying out, they knew they had something we hadn't seen before because we hadn't seen those breakdown products before and it was in the right mass range for the Higgs.
As for how you constrain the mass limits, I really dont have the time to work out how to explain it in a concise way. Esentially, we've already bashed stuff together enough to know what comes out and how much mass those particles have, thus how much mass any particles that breakdown into them must have.
@@bipolarminddroppings This is a lot more comprehensive that I expected to get, and I am beginnig to understand I think :) Thank you :)
@@bipolarminddroppingscan you go into that more in-depth ?
Was that Mr. Higgs at 8min 49sec? Was he crying? Man! I would be too! Decades of waiting... then... validation!
500yrs from now, if we survive that long, the Higgs name will still be known.
It was indeed Peter Higgs 🙂
Will it? Or perhaps a better model will emerge and then the Higgs will just be forgotten in time? The truth about all this stuff is that it's not "gospel truth." It's an idea that explains things for now. When a better explanation is come up with, the old explanation is just antiquated or is just still retained as being a "good enough" approximation or a "special case" (excuse the run on).
@@jd9119 Tell that to Isaac Newton! His work was superceded by Einstein, but we still measure Force in Newtons. Then there's Pascals...
Yeah, like Newton, Galileo and Euler!
Dr. Lincoln, thanks for a great explanation!
You should do a video on the implications of the higgs boson and the significance of the klein Gordon equation. Lots of people know how the Higgs boson was discovered, but not a lot know what it actually does/means.
New scientific discoveries are always truly amazing! Thanks Dr. Don for the excellent synopsis on how the Higgs Boson was discovered. 👍👍💥💥
Hell yeah fermilab uploaded
Fascinating that the model left the Higgs mass as a free parameter. Are there implications on the theoretical side now that the mass has been pinned down?
Pre measurement, there were hundreds of papers constraining the mass, ranging from obscure theory about natural mass scales, both theory and observation in lambda CDM, and experimental measurements in which higher order corrections depend on the Higgs mass….which confirmed virtual Higgs were contributing,
Problem is that there might be more than 1 higgs particle.
@@bipolarminddroppings Was it Nima that showed 2 Higgs masses? Is there an Anti-Higgs?
THANK YOU...
PROF. DR. LINCOLN...!!!
Remarkable story and inspiring contribution to science. RIP Peter Ware Higgs · Born 29 May 1929 · Newcastle upon Tyne, England - Died8 April 2024 (aged 94) · Edinburgh, Scotland
Looked very dapper in those earlier photos Don.
There is a contribution of a Bengali scientist named Dr. Sattrendra Nath Bose. From where The BOSON name comes form. But the name of Sattrendra Nath Bose is never mentioned
👍 Every Don-Vid is a gem! Learned so much, from a proper source, I'm feeling honoured!
Good explanation...thank you sir
I love the Eyewitness-style intro music. So nostalgic.
“I would like to ask about the phenomenon where the path integral of particles is affected by the gravitational potential. It starts with the wave function having precise momentum but imprecise position, where the initial phases of the path integrals are almost the same. However, as they move away from the gravitational potential, the phase on the upper part begins to slow down, while the phase on the lower part speeds up, leading to the cancellation of the path integral phases due to one being fast and the other slow. Although the momentum encompasses a wide range, there are very few paths, resulting in the wave function having a precise position but imprecise momentum. Moreover, as the frequency of the wave function increases, the position becomes precise, and the momentum imprecise. The path integrals for the upward and downward motion include all possible momenta. Similarly, the phase of the upward part changes more slowly, and the fast becomes faster, which after interference, cancels out. The fast phase of the upward path gradually slows down, and the slow phase speeds up, making the phases converge. This leads to constructive interference, increasing the number of paths, and thus transitioning to precise momentum but imprecise position. Is there such a phenomenon?”
Wish you went into more detail about how exactly you “see” the Higgs boson.
You see its decay products. Ofc other SM processes make the same products, so you measure an excess of events at the Higgs mass, e.g, you expect 400 background events, and you observe 500, so you made 100 +/- 30 Higgs, or maybe +/- 20…the latter being a 5 sigma detection, which is officially a discovery. Ofc, you can’t select one event and say “that’s a Higgs”, in fact, it’s probably not.
A huge "what if" is if the SSC hadn't been cancelled, how much fundamental physics would have advanced by now. How painful just to think about it! 🤔
Just a result of a very dangerous political period in America. Another such period is in the MAGA wings. Please vote.
Do more videos like this please 🙏 we'll support
Got it, don Lincoln discovered the Don higgs boson
Thanks for the update
Well done on the improvement in jackets over the years.
Just came after the video of supersymmetry uploaded 11yrs ago and now see this guy again, he is the messiah
Epic energy range on the opening and closing cards!
I'm glad to be a witness of such a great discovery in my lifetime 😊😊
We miss your videos!
Kudos on your videos. But in one of the videos, you mention the electron as a point particle. "Is the electron a photon with toroidal topology?" by J. G. Williamson and M.B. van der Mark is just one of the many articles published about similar structure of the electron. This one is mentioned because probably the best of the lot where a "photon confined in periodic boundary conditions ... give rise to a charge .. and a half-integral spin." The point particle comes from Pauli's time and today there is a new generation that write about an internal topology with different format, according to the author(s).
My question: Is not time to update the view about the internal structure of the electron? By the way the internal structure seems to couple with Muon and Tau. There is more info but like to keep it short, and your thoughts will be greatly appreciated. A video will be more informative!
The support staff at these science facilities often contain people who were the smartest person to have passed through a school. Folks who have subsumed their own goals to the greater goals of science.
@@CrucialFlowResearchwe ain't getting funded. We'd have, you know, *rights* if we did.
Would have liked an explanation of how you make sure you got the right particle, including confirming that it has the right properties. An early example of this going awry was the search for Yukawa's particle thought to mediate the nuclear force -- a particle with near the right mass was discovered, but it turned out to be a different type of particle entirely (the muon), and then Yukawa's particle (the pion) was discovered a bit later.
Do more video about quantum & particle physics please 🙏🙏 please don't stop,
A great video👍👍 thank you👍
This is just some useless random thought though, but really can we eventually be able to build a petavolts per meter acceleration gradient class collider, harnessing plasmonic or other types of novel techs like that been suggested by some people, and eventually capable of probing physics at energy high enough for us to prove or rule out theoretical models of reality (there are a lot of them, a way too many in facts that some people have argued that theoretical physics had gone astray in the last five decades) or this is just a dream that like so many other dreams we had will never happen no matter how long we wait?
The United States should have another try at the Superconducting Super Collider.
Being here in EU I don't recall the full story, but I seems to recall that in the US, the local (national) interests had priority over the global (federal) interests.
Greetings,
Anthony
Competing interests and priorites caused those $'s to be directed to the ISS, a project I personally consider to be a total waste.
Looking forward to the HL upgrade. Best wishes, CMS HGCAL!
New scientific discoveries are always truly amazing! Thanks for the great explanation! Dr. Lincoln.
Why in TQC is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle used to assert the existence of virtual particles? Why does the Heisenberg uncertainty principle apply to empty space if empty space does not have a wave function?
And insightful and exciting presentation. I would like to somewhat challenged the statement. That physics is everything. I don't see physics as biology or human relationships and family. Neither do I see it as money and those two things. Relationships and money are fundamental to human existence and life.
Fantastic video can you please do a video
On wormhole and gravity
Is there an intuitive explanation for why the different particles interact differently with the Higgs field? Or why a photo does not? Is there a reason charged particles cannot be massless?
I liked the video and am sending it to my grandsons to watch.
Those earlier pics of Don are exactly the type of dude I picture when I think of "real" science being done.
Its great we found +1 particle, and one that (currently accepted) models theorized existed. It was close to predicted properties...AND YET things like EPR paradox, debates about time mediators, etc say that we're still missing MOST of the picture. Not that we understand 'most' of it, but that all the evidence says we're overlooking 80-90% of what's going on in the observable universe.
When I see articles about things 'finally disproving possibility of MOND', etc I'm like "great, we're continuing to make great strides;" but we continue to see a lot of evidence that Special Relativity, and even large parts of QM appear to be faulty: just not sure 'what' isn't being accounted for.
all the places where SR and QM are "faulty" are extreme edges cases, the theory that fixes them will be like GR to Newton's gravity, a small fix that isn't relevant to 99% of situations, in most cases the equations of GR revert back to Newton's equations. MOND basically isn't a small tweak to an existing theory, its a complete rewrite of fundamental physics.
And while we might not know about 90% of the universe, we've got 99% of the everyday, middling mass, low-middling speed physics sorted. The kinds of physics we enounter everyday.
edit: I realise I may have trivialised GR when i said it's a small fix that isn't relevant to 99% of situations. Obviously, it's a huge fix that has implications that changed how we thought about the universe, but in terms of the actual equations, it's a small fix that isn't relevant to 99% of situations.
@@bipolarminddroppings a 'applicable 1% of the time' fix would only be true IF Standard Model and GR holds true: no guarantee it does.
'institutional scientists' would like to not think about 'what if' a new discovery completely upends GR and thus last 80yrs of work...but its far from a solid theory: Einstein himself generalized a bunch of stuff: time, gravity, uncertainty principle. etc.
ALL of which the decision is still out on IF current approach is true or not. and having a big change to just ONE of them will basically force 100% rewrite of it, because their all fundamental.
IF we're not able to (instruments, electrical tech) can't measure/observer FTL particles, it could be that they're there, just out of our current reach. Uncertainty principle has always been on shaky grounds, and that going way of dodo wouldn't be shock to those researching true boundaries of our knowledge.
We're not even Kardeshev I yet, 'things we encounter everyday' is kind of reductionist.
50years ago ARPNET only had couple hundred PCs linked crudely.
100years ago we hadn't split the atom, or understood weak force. no jet propulsion.
150years ago there were zero datacenters or scanning-tunneling microscopes or particle colliders.
200years ago bacteria wasn't discovered (nor antiobiotics).
250 years ago rocketry was still using sticks (vs fins) as stabilizers.
I would advise extreme caution in logic fallacy of thinking an 'exotic' use of physics wouldn't become very common when the tech is improved and made readily available
...Indeed for MOST tech, there are really only 2 limiting factors preventing Avg Joes from using it (if they want) in everyday applications:
1) $$$ (bcuz megacorps/gov limit base material availability)
2) notion of 'corp' IP, trade secret, gov-only access.
From MRIs, to electron microscopes, to modern PCs, GPS devices...we tend to always find MANY uses for new tech (incl new physics);
we don't really see any evidence that relativity is faulty. it's passed every experimental test with flying colours. we *think* it breaks down inside black holes, but by definition we'll never be able to see what actually happens inside an event horizon.
as for QM, yes, it's clearly incomplete as it doesn't account for gravity. whether that means "large parts" are faulty is debatable. QED, for instance, makes predictions with insane precision.
This is a brilliant scientific history
Thanks, Doc.
The LHC discover the Higgs boson not the tevatron
Cool work ,its very nice to see how science and human knownlage advance thanks to the colaboration of many smart people ,i like that😊
I've tried to understand the theoretical basis for the Higgs boson, but it defeats me. Don didn't go into as much detail as I'd expected, but there's that damn sombrero on the blackboard behind him!
Tillatron - it smashes lighter thoughts together to make heavier ones. I found the Wiz go on
Love that intro music... and the video too
Awesome video! I love the 'inside baseball' of how things were when doing this research. And I love the history of Physics! All these unsung heroes, and it's easier to understand 😆
Instead of a vague condensed version of the "history of," I think a Cliffs-Notes version of how these experiments were conducted and what exactly they were measuring in order to rule out masses of the boson would be more helpful in understanding.
the other videos in the description go more into detail about the actual experiments
You should do another video and explain just how these measurements are taken. Most of us know virtually nothing about colliders. We just know what the news says that a particle is discovered, then we learn nore about the physics. But I'd really like to know how these measurements are made. Sure there's collisions but that's as far as I can go. More data please. :)
My favorite scientist !!
Interesting.
That diagram basically confirms that it's always in the last place you'd look 😂
I know i'm off topic but i want to ask:what is the correct equation that expresses the irradiance on the surface of an object that travels through the interstellar medium at relativistic speed?what i mean is : what is the kinetic energy received per unit of time by a square meter of an object that travels in space at a good fraction of the speed of light? I thought like this : with a N of 1 particle per cm³ i got a density of 2e-21 kg/m³,then :if the object is travelling at 0.9c it means that in 1 of ITS seconds it's travelling 0.9*2.294*299792458=6.18e8 m,so 1.27e-12 kg are impacting each second at 0.9 c on a m²,so an irradiance of 140 kW/m².Is this correct?
Thanks
What relation does exist between the Higgs Field and the ether of the 19th century? Esp. symmetry breaking depending on the direction of the movement in the scalar Higgs Field?!
So... what happened that made them say, "That's a Higgs boson?" Are there pictures of it? How did they know what they were looking at?
Goodmorning. I have got a strange question. If 2 black holes collide, is there explosion compare to 2 neutron stars collision? Considering gigantic black holes weight it should be X times bigger explosion right ?
If the proper length of an object is measured when it’s at rest, should the “proper” wave length of light be infinite then?
I need to spend more time reading about nuclear physics.
So, a field called the Higgs can be turned into mass (particle) by slamming a Proton into another Proton going the opposite direction at a certain speed (energy). Not just any speed but defined. Too slow and nothing, to fast and????, not sure what happens if to fast? Not sure what the trace is in the detector they know shows 126 x's the weight of a Proton? Then the mass loses speed and goes back to a field. I watched here on another video that mass is made up of motion (kinetic energy) of, I forgot....waves of energy? Need to watch that one again.
Crazy we humans figure this stuff out.
Typically, we wait until the very end to search in the right place after trying everything else first!
8:22 What was the reason in change that they found the Higgs Boson then?
vielen lieben dank
Why does the LHC use proton/proton collisions instead of proton/anti-proton collisions?
Also, could you please explain what the discovery of the Higg's boson has done for science? What new benefits/knowledge have been developed since then based on it.
Protons are easy to produce you can just remove the electrons from hydrogen gas using electricity. On the other hand antiprotons aren’t really found in nature so you need to produce them. It would be much much harder to produce enough antiprotons to run a collider the size of the LHC than to just use protons and the benefit wouldn’t be that much to make the extra work worth it
Higgs particle was determined to exist as a statistically significant variation of the data that required a subatomic particle to exist to cause behaviours en mass in the observations.
There is no Higgs detection plate.
The Higgs only exists for a VERY short time. In that time it moves a VERY tiny distance. Both are so small as to not be directly observable by anything man has made. But we can see the decay products of that short lived Higgs or as you said "determined to exist as a statistically significant variation of the data that required a subatomic particle to exist". The decay products exist for much longer and travel further and we can observe those. It is unlikely we will ever see a HIggs boson directly. As far a more than one... that is an open question as you say but seems unlikely since so many mass ranges have been excluded in the long search for the one we did find.
I remember my high school chem teacher back in 2011 being mad about the Tevatron being "beaten out" (his words, not mine)
Is the Higgs field fine tuned in our Universe. ?
Second I wonder how the Higgs field would behave near intense Gravity like Black holes. ?
Can the Universe tear if the Higgs field changed .
For reference, this is a lecture by Dr. Fabiola Gianotti of CERN ua-cam.com/video/Vdc9CHuCSj0/v-deo.html at Stanford.
Thankyou! Will watch it.
Thankyou. I'll watch it.
Thank you, Dr Don. While the discovery is Cool - the process of discovery Cool as well!
I love a good scientific success story
Why does the name boson comes into picture? Why was a scientist named Bose not mentioned in the video? I suppose an explanation should have started by explaining the full name first right?
"I don't know, how was the Higgs Boson discovered?"
Like this,
Peter Higgs took a trip to sea
But who's in charge?
Now let me see
To his eye, his telescope applied
An Admiral,
A Commodore,
A Captain,
Ahhh, there he is, Higg's Boson
I'm something of a scientist myself.
"But we won't know unless we go take a look."
Wasn't the Higgs found underneath a sofa cushion? He'd lost his keys, went rooting around, and there it was - turning energy into matter, or dust, as we call it.
Why do round things not roll? Because their too close together. The wind gets betwean them and creates a dampener. If they were much much closer they would form a wind harmonic of similar melodies, a magnet. But if another harmonica was played, it would sit slightly farther away as the pick axe exchanged gold for hugs and kisses. X^2 would venture forth for a boon.
Vatican II also ended in 1965 (1962-1965). That was quite a change in Church doctrine to liberalize towards the new way. Also, the Office of the Holy Inquisition was renamed in 1965, and again in 2022. I'm not familiar with Jewish, Muslim, or Eastern religious stances on the Higgs Boson. Perhaps Coptic Christians, Eastern Orthodox, Buddhist, or Taoist faiths have different politics for Scientific discussion.
What would happen if we were to open up the floor to the discussion of the so-called "God Particle" to inter-cultural learning? Why not have people on the UA-cam channels to weigh in on how it affects them?
Particle Physics was never my field of interest, but Solid State Physics.
@ Aachen University (RWTH), about 35 years ago, several other institutes designed many of the detectors and fast pulse electronics for CERN, they were called CAMAC plug-ins, if I remember correctly, visible also in the photos.
Anyhow, the way you just explained the narrowing of the possible energy ranges, it's much more exciting than a thriller.
One should also emphasize, that this prediction and discovery after nearly 50 years is a showcase, how Physics and Nature of Science generally work, or should always work.
Only after a theory is proven by an experiment (!) with low enough measurement uncertainty (!), this theory is considered as "not being false" in first place.. in this case, after 12 more years, it is as well considered as being "correct" .. and Peter Higgs did not receive the Nobel Price, before this experimental proof was successfully demonstrated.
Greetings from a die-hard experimental physicist and metrologist.
Crude question.
Where the mass of Higs boson came from?
Recursive? 😊
The Higgs boson itself also interacts with the Higgs field. Also the Higgs boson doesn’t necessarily need the Higgs mechanism to gain mass. I believe this is because it has 0 spin(the only known elementary particle to have this property)
Who else recognized the TevaTron from the Bobby Broccoli video?
from the video, I get that americans don't like that LHC is more powerful and sophisticated than Tevatron. all other points in the video are nuances.
I dunno. I am an American and work on the LHC. The only real difference is in the LHC cafeteria you can get decent croissants, while the Chicago-located Fermilab cafeteria offers deep dish pizza.
Either way, the physics is awesome.
What if they did NOT find it? Total panic just like it right now?
Всё замечательно, но почему бозон был найден там где искали в последнюю очередь? Случайность?
Everything is great, but why was the boson found where they were looking for the last place? Accident?
This is probably a very naive question, and if so, forgive me. But is there an argument for having the names of the research assistants and maybe lab technicians that were involved listed in a formal paper? I mean, as you said, you couldn't have done any of that work without them... Just asking.
Is it possible that gravity is electromagnetic?
Is there next particle to found ? Maybe high energy particle ?
Currently every particle included in the standard model has been found. If there are more particles then they must be something theoretical like gravitons, supersymmetric particles or some sort of dark matter particle
Why are you not updating your playlists?
If I had a time machine and went back to LHC and told them: the Higgs boson is 125 GeV, would that have helped CERN?
Not really. Fermilab already said that this region was promising. CERN still needed to collect the data to prove it. Statistics is king.
Re-acceleration of the narrative. I wonder what good out of it.
When did the property of entanglement emerge wrt the big bang?
Are there any similarities to how the mathematics of GR break down at the event horizon to how they break down at the quantum scale? Besides that the produce infinites? Are the mechanisms of breakdown mathematically similar?
No, quantum gravity breaks down at the Planck mass, which is much much larger than just the quantum scale, it's an intermediate mass where the mix of quantum gravity is not understood. Planck mass is not a black hole mass size, it's tiny
It may well be quite some time in the future just as Einstein moved us beyond Newton the next person moves us to a time where notoins of dark matter and energy seem as quaint as the 21st century.
My question is is there a single metric in the equation that causes the breakdown at quantum and macro scales when a certain value is entered?
@ianbrown3342
yup both relativity and quantum mechanics are rife with singularities. We're learning.
Realy I like this video its interestyng
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the theme music for this channel is redicoulsly loud and needs to end the moment he starts talking, not fade out when he starts talking because it is hard to make out whats he's saying
At 7:38 you say "but I wasn't unique." I beg to differ. You ARE unique... just like everybody else.
Hmmm ... @1:34 or thereabouts does Higgs Field automatically imply Higgs boson? (Serious question)
All that the field shows is that there is a space (a 4-space) satisfying properties that satisfy a Higgs boson.
Are we really, really sure that Higgs Field space behavior is not showing interactions of other kinds?
And I kinda think along lines of Higgs 4-space as being limited in magnitude by measurements so really Higgs Field is a measured limitation of 4-space.
I mean could an electron, neutron, proton, Hydrogen atom, water molecule, planet earth and its moon and so forth wander into a Higgs Field?
If not why not?
Hence my assertion at (*) These fields show some kind of inclusive/exclusive behaviors, in my opinion.
Maybe, in the interests of nested nests, it seems those field are limited in units of measurement and can an energy level be attributed to objects in that space?
The Higgs field exists everywhere, and in fact it has the same value everywhere. Fundamental particles like the electron, quark, W & Z bosons interact with the Higgs field in different ways and different strengths and gain their mass. Other particles like the photon, gluon and maybe neutrinos, do not interact with the field. Properties of the Higgs boson have been verified to be that predicted by excitations of the Higgs field, a large mass, a spin of 0, no electric charge, a weak hypercharge of +1 and no strong force charge etc. As well as its predicted creation and decay routes have been confirmed.
@@tonywells6990 Thank you for your reply.
A thing I am curious about is nested nests of nested things with quanta as smallest yet known. Quanta nest is contained in all other nests nests - think of nested 3-d venn diagrams or even nested 4-d ones.
The nests are almost exculsive/inclusive but not quite. So all matter contains nested nests or quanta, subatomic particles, atomic particles, molecular entities ... all the way up to materials objects, humans and ultimately the universe as it is. So each table, for example, can be imagined as its own universe containing nested universes of other things all contained in universe - if that makes any sense
So they don't keep quantum cows in the Higgs Field?
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