Oh my Higgs!
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 3:27 pm
The Higgs particle got the Nobel Prize for physics this year. Or rather, Peter Higgs and François Englert were awarded it.
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The prize should have gone to Peter Higgs at the University of Edinburgh (ED-in-burr-ə):Ann wrote:
The Higgs particle got the Nobel Prize for physics this year.
Or rather, Peter Higgs and François Englert were awarded it.
It is energy/momentum that distorts space-time.Psnarf wrote:
Since mass/gravity is a distortion of space-time, I wonder what it is about the Higgs boson that disturbs the surrounding space-time. Since every particle is supposed to have an anti-particle, is there a Higgs anti-boson? I guess it is its own anti-particle, what with its zero spin, zero charge, zero color charge, zero baryon number, adding up to a quantum number of zero...what exactly is it? How can something with those properties distort space-time?!
The Higgs mechanism gives mass to elementary particles. The elementary particles the neutron is composed of are the up- and down-quarks. In the standard model of particle physics, they get their mass via the Higgs mechanism. However, the masses of the three quarks only amounts to about 1 percent of the total neutron mass. The rest somehow comes from the energy of the gluons that bind the three quarks into the neutron. But this mechanism is not fully understood yet. Electrons, on the other hand get their mass via the Higgs mechanism. But again, the masses of the electrons constitute about 1 per mill of the mass of an atom.Psnarf wrote:Seems neutrons may carry more Higgs bosons?
The Higgs particle has a mass and hypercharge but no electric charge. It also interacts, by construction, with all particles that have a mass.Psnarf wrote:Since mass/gravity is a distortion of space-time, I wonder what it is about the Higgs boson that disturbs the surrounding space-time. Since every particle is supposed to have an anti-particle, is there a Higgs anti-boson? I guess it is its own anti-particle, what with its zero spin, zero charge, zero color charge, zero baryon number, adding up to a quantum number of zero...what exactly is it? How can something with those properties distort space-time?!
In this context unified theory refers to nothing more and nothing less than a unified treatment of gravity and the other three forces of nature. This unification is similar to electromagnetism, which allowed for a single unified treatment of electric- and magnetic phenomena.Beyond wrote:Unified theoryWouldn't that be called "Life"
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Seems more like frustration, to me.Markus Schwarz wrote:In this context unified theory refers to nothing more and nothing less than a unified treatment of gravity and the other three forces of nature. This unification is similar to electromagnetism, which allowed for a single unified treatment of electric- and magnetic phenomena.Beyond wrote:Unified theoryWouldn't that be called "Life"
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Several people spent their lives trying to find one. For them, it certainly could be called life.