Arvin Ash

The Higgs boson and Higgs field explained with Simple Analogy (2018x25)

Udgivelsesdato: Sep 15, 2018

What is the God Particle? How does the Higgs Boson work? If you were a fish, would you know that the entire world in which you existed was contained in a substance called water? You probably wouldn’t know it because, you had always been in it. You could not see, breathe, travel or exist outside of it. Water would just be there, and you would take it for granted. You probably would not even know that it was a substance that you were living in. It would just be a kind of liquid field that permeates your entire world. We humans also live in such a field that permeates the entire universe we live in – without which we could not exist. What is this field, and what does the God particle have to do with it? In the 2nd half of the 20th century, physicists developed something called the standard model of particle physics. Nearly all phenomenon, and the underlying particles that make up ultimate building blocks of the universe can be explained by this model, except gravity.This model consists of 12 fundamental particles that make up all matter, and 4 particles, called bosons responsible for 3 fundamental forces of nature: strong force, weak force, and electromagnetism. Gravity is another force, and it not part of this model. But it can be modeled using general relativity. With the recipe provided in the standard model, and gravity, we can build everything in the entire universe. However, up until 2012, the standard model had a gaping flaw. According to its underlying theory, all force carrying particles should be massless. Although the photon which is indeed massless, experiments show that the weak force's bosons have mass. So here was a promising model that could be used to explain our universe. But perhaps it would need to be thrown out because it had this seemingly fatal flaw in being inconsistent regarding the way the weak force worked. In the late 1950s, physicists had "no idea" how to resolve these issues. All attempts to solve this problem just seemed