Scientists and journalists across the world valiantly continue the struggle to explain, in terms average people can understand, what the Higgs boson, aka “God particle”, actually is. In this video, theoretical physicist John Ellis comes admirably close.
The Higgs boson explained (sort of)
Scientists and journalists across the world valiantly continue the struggle to explain, in terms average people can understand, what the Higgs boson, aka “God particle”, actually is. In this video, theoretical physicist John Ellis comes admirably close.
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……….right
Where do I get one of those T Shirts, it is truly awesome.
I haven’t laughed quite so much for some time
Aw bless, he really held the hardcore science back til about 2:30, but then it all comes pouring out and us poor laypeople are left scrunchy faced.
I just love the fact that at least one person at Crikey considers physicist John Ellis comes “admirably close” to explaing what a Higgs boson is to we Crikey readers. This reader is as aware at 7 p.m. , after viewing this, as I was at 7 a.m., before I began reading The Age on Higg’s boson.
Can readers such as I am simply say to all physicists globally…we are pleased with your great excitement and joy at this remarkable scientific advance.
But we really have to move back to our material world and try to make it livable for our descendants.
I have read several popular science books and articles on quantum physics, trying to get a layman’s understanding of how it all works. It still largely baffles me, I don’t undertsand how exchanging bosums creates an attractive force or how a fundamental particle can transform itself into other particles (Is this a process similart to alchemies’ transmutation?). The Higgs Bosun itself is responsible for mass, yet transmutes in an instant. How does that keep the whole mass thing happening?