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I'm wondering about the higgs boson, or "god particle". If it is said that it turned energy into matter, that has to be false, because it is matter itself.
It's mass is right at the maximum energy they could run the [LEP] at. But the indirect indications are that the Higgs boson should be close to that value.
-Brian Webber, professor of theoretical physics at Cambridge
yomamma said:I'm wondering about the higgs boson, or "god particle". If it is said that it turned energy into matter, that has to be false, because it is matter itself.
The Higgs Boson is a subatomic particle that was first theorized in the 1960s by physicist Peter Higgs. It is a fundamental particle that is responsible for giving other particles in the universe their mass.
The Higgs Boson is important because it helps us understand how particles acquire mass and how the universe works at a fundamental level. Its discovery in 2012 confirmed the validity of the Standard Model of particle physics and opened up new possibilities for further research and discoveries.
The Higgs Boson was discovered in 2012 by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Scientists used the LHC to accelerate protons to nearly the speed of light and then collide them. The resulting data showed the presence of a particle with properties consistent with the Higgs Boson.
The Higgs Boson has a mass of approximately 125 GeV and a spin of 0. It is also electrically neutral and has no color charge. These properties were predicted by the Standard Model and confirmed by experiments at the LHC.
The Higgs Boson interacts with other particles through the Higgs field, which permeates the entire universe. When particles interact with this field, they gain mass. The more they interact with the Higgs field, the more massive they become. This is similar to how a ball rolling through molasses would experience resistance and become slower.