The best Particle Physics and Astrophysics channel ever for me!!! You explain complex terms so simply but with exact preciseness...your channel deserves more subscriptions and likes!!! Please keep making videos - Thank You!!
If you was my high school physics professor I would be an physician today for sure. I discovered in my 30's that I enjoy physics and astrophysics, in high school actually I didn't understand it because no one didn't explained how it works, they just provided us formula for calculations and that's it.
@Neil Rusling The answer is curriculum and exams on aforementioned curriculum. They teach you the stuff society has deemed useful. Mostly pragmatic stuff like V=IR etc. I didn't encounter the Maxwell field equations until Uni and at that point my maths wasn't up to the job anymore so I had to drop my 3rd Science; Physics and concentrate on Computing. Honestly the jump between Scottish Higher Physics and 1st year Uni Physics was crazy. It was crazy in computing too but I had much more of a handle on that. I still love physics and appreciate the pop-sci explanations of it on you tube hence why I'm here. Luv and Peace.
"If you WERE my high school professor, I would be A PHYSICIST today for sure." - and - "no one explained". PHYSICIAN is a medical doctor. PHYSICIST is the word you meant.
The discovery of the Higgs field and its associated particle...I count as one of the most important events for all people that happened during my lifetime.
You are amazing! If I had this in high school I would have continued to study physics ! But what you do to us masses in breaking down the complex world of quantum physics is like someone getting to read a book for the first time!
Don Lincoln does such a great job explaining this very complex stuff to even us lay people who just want to learn for personal reasons. Cheers to that. 🎉
Wonderful overview for the public. Great presenter. Why not show this to 13 year olds? Scientific ideas are fun, easy and natural. Spend a week putting Higgs-Boson together for them is a gift that will keep giving for a lifetime. Glad I found this series. Thanks.
Found myself thinking that bosons are like the 'pop' in soda. Ie the idea that a gas could be dissolved into a solution, and released when excited by a nucleation point is similar to the function of bosons in an atomic structure - like photons in an xray. They're the hidden force ('pop') holding everything we know as 'soda' together. When excited by an external force (or maybe a stray electron) the photon becomes excited and ejects itself from the structure, leaving behind a slightly altered and 'flatter' soda.
I will have to say that Dr. Lincoln has been the best presenter of this stuff by far. He has a gift to "dumb" it down to where anyone can get the gist of it. Thank you!
2 questions, Any idea about how the higgs boson interacts with other higgs particles to create a field? 2. How does electron volts relate to mass in relation to the higgs particle?
Brief and precised explaination after 60 years of theoretical predictions and experimentally found it and complete the standard model. This is just the beginning of 21st century and future scientists are awaiting for new breakthrough !!!
Stupid question, but: if a Higg's Boson is what makes up the Higg's Field, how can its mass be measured in terms of how it interacts with the Higg's Field? It is the Field, right? You're measuring its mass based on how it interacts with itself? I would think it would be a Yin and Yang-type thing, where you're measuring its mass based on how it interacts with everything that ISN'T part of the Field. Sorry, I really don't know anything about physics. Just wondering...
As a non-physician, I usually enjoy your videos that help me understand a little some physic principles. This time, I've almost understood nothing (and I was familiar with the higgs field/boson theory). There was too much new concepts :s But thanks for your great job anyway!
Can Higgs field explain gravity f(m, d)? How does Higgs field fit in when we say gravity is the effect of space-time distortion due to mass? If we write, Higgs field -> Mass -> Gravity, it looks like Higgs field can explain gravity. Interaction of particles with Higgs field causes space-time distortion and hence gravity?
Is it possible for a particle say a proton, that is moving linearly, can deviate from linear path and take angular motion, without taking a 'Pause in Motion'. Is it proton that consists of mass and energy that is in motion due to any one form of energy, stops for a fraction of time and in process lose all its energy, which either converts to more mass of that proton or that energy is given to some another mass, or that energy goes into ocean of energy that exists in vacuum and after taking an angle of some degree regain its energy back. If all these particles in our Universe obey a rule of 'Pause in Motion' than it can conclude that time for every particles in Universe takes a pause for fraction of period. Now if two atoms {made of three different particles} are in same states than it is almost impossible to detect 'Pause Time' of one atom with help of another atom and vice versa. So any observing instrument used for this purpose also has 'Pause Time' same as the object that is observed, when both are in same states. But when a particle accelerate towards the speed of light, the 'Pause Time' decreases. and once it reaches at a speed of light e.g. photon and neutrino the 'Pause Time' vanishes. Now for a particle moving at a speed of light, the time stops relative to the particles which are slow in motion. Keeping this in mind we come to another conclusion for time. The more the 'Pause Time' taken by particle the fast the time runs for it and the less the 'Pause Time' taken by Particle the time runs slow for it.
This is a top notch lesson in the scientific method of verifying theory with data. It was good to get an overview on how theortical physics meets experimental physics, for once!
Higgs give mass. Mass bends space time & makes gravity. Gravitons must be stopped by Higgs field like WZ & fermions, unlike Photons. Gravitons are bigger than Photons or Gluons in whatever quantum terms apply [spin or whatever etc.]. This small size fits the weakness of gravity. Gravitons obviously don't interact radioactively or electromagnetically. Theres a window to look for gravitons. In that window, we find gravitational waves on a huge scale and maybe WIMPS. WIMPS barely interact so we cant make a size judgment on them but due to theory we know they are quite big as particles go. Maybe a quantum split experiment using the same stuff we use to try to find WIMPs, but obvs scaled down, as detectors on the end in the presence of a known change in gravitational waves will find gravitons??
If it is the interaction with the higgs field that gives these fundamental particles their masses then I guess the question I have is this: Why do some particles interact more with the higgs field than others? In the analogy of the higgs field as water, the particles must differ in their 'streamlined-ness' to explain their differing interaction with the water. Do we know the quality that is causally responsible for this difference in interaction, if it is not size?
dr. don, ok, so I am made up of higgs bosons that pop up out of a higgs field, so as I move through space, do my bosons just skate along the field, or do they disapear and pop up on the field as I move through/ along it?
If subatomic particles interacting with the Higgs field get their mass, then why don’t larger particles like protons and neutrons do the same? The key is “why”. Because p and n are larger, or “collections” of quarks “cancel” out mass? Or because we just can’t measure it?
Princeofcups Poc I should have wrote my question better... quarks get mass from the Higgs field, and quarks make up protons and neutrons. But the combined quark mass is only a small part of the proton or neutron mass. The larger part being the energy holding the quarks together. So my question is does the Higgs field interact with this energy thus providing mass? I guess not. The mass from the energy is just the relativistic effect.
Complicated! I read that the Higgs boson discovered in 2012 had only 1/4 the mass that was expected? Also, where does the graviton fit into the standard model?
Mass in kilograms = Charge in Coulombs squared x 10 to the power -7, divided by distance between two charges. So, where did Higgs Boson come into this equation for mass ?
How does magnetism effect the Higgs filed? Gravity? It would seem that wave particle duality and the uncertainty that goes along with it... would suggest perhaps the presence of another, yet unknown field. This could account for the "grainularity" of light.
It doesn't. As war as we know, the fields operate independently. Although they sometimes conflict, like gravity affecting particles until they are really really close, then the strong force takes over.
So how can a top quark weigh more than an atom with 79 protons, and even more neutrons? Should they not each contain quarks, and with top quarks popping in, would that not tip the scale drastically? Think I'm missing something.
A top quark doesn't combined with other quarks to form matter. They are very short lived and can only be studied by creating them using the Large Hadron Collider. They were predicted by the Standard Model, which is why we knew how and where to look for them, but beyond that they are not believed to play any part in the building blocks of matter. It's kind of like those highly unstable elements at the very bottom of the Periodic Table. They're not stable enough to be useful for anything since they decay into other particles almost instantly, but we know they can exist, and we know how to create them, if only for a fraction of a second.
From Wiki: Production Because top quarks are very massive, large amounts of energy are needed to create one. I hate to use this description (since you really need the math to understand it), but you could say that that energy is converted into the observed mass.
Still wondering what mass is. Should particles that interact more with the Higgs Boson slow down? if so how this motion is related to the mass of an object? I guess they build up the inertia of an object, but then what about the gravity interaction? :(
Jim Honkos yes some particles consisting of quarks and leptons and W and Z bosons. Not true for larger particles like protons and neutrons which are “combinations” of the other particles. In this case the energy holding the particles together is the measured mass.
Thank you for all your videos. I’m admittedly a science lay person, and I have to hold on with both hands to understand these concepts. So I apologize if this is a facially dumb question, but I’m gonna ask it anyway. If the Higgs Boson provides mass to the other elementary particles, why isn’t it also responsible for gravity? My (again, admittedly limited) understanding of gravity can be summarized by the John Wheeler quote: "Mass tells space-time how to curve, and space-time tells mass how to move”. If this is a correct (if overly simplified) summary of gravity, then why isn’t gravity just a byproduct of the Higgs Field and its interaction with spacetime. Almost as if gravity is an imaginary force that is really just describing the interaction of mass (by way of the Higgs Field) with spacetime? Why is a separate theoretical particle such as the graviton necessary to describe the gravitational force?
...The only way to truly gain insight into these concepts is mathematically. But that means you have to be fluent in that language and have an understanding of other concepts as well. It's impossible to truly understand or explain it by translating it into another form of communication. Visual and verbal explanations will always be flawed. It's like translating a poem into another language. There's a lot of underlying stuff that are lost in translation. Reading a flat out translated poem will probably cause confusion. The original language rhymes, it has sayings, some words have double meanings, some words sound the same, inflection changes meaning specific to that language, slang, popular phrases, etc, etc. It all gets lost in translation. If sometimes you feel more confused after an explanation of something like relativity, this is why.
Cheers Dr. Don lincoln . You are the reason why I spend lots of ,y free time on your website. And it`s because it is always interesz^^ting what You are telling us there. I am actually a biologist but became really interested in particle pysics after I visited the Large Hadron collider in Genevy with my youngest son. He is currently doing his work as an apprentice at famous watchmaker Bucherer in Lucerne. Hope he continues studiying so well. love your videos. Because to cite You "Physics is Everything"!
I remember the discovery of the Higgs boson particle very well. It was on the cover of an issue of New Scientist (slightly embarrassed now that I used to be so into that magazine), where, predictably, it was referred to as the "God particle". I read it while sitting in a car outside my local supermarket and drinking a Coke.
3:48. "You often hear people say that Higgs bosons interact more with heavy particles ." Yeah, all the time! Especially at family get-togethers! Just found your channel. Don't understand any of it, Lovin' it!
So, if I understand correctly, the Higgs field is like an ether/field/medium that transfers mass to these sub atomic particles depending on the degree of interaction exerted by the former on latter? Great video! Thanks for the knowledge so well broken down :)
As Neutrinos are Fermions and can not overlap quantum states, Pauli exclusion principle, while Neutrino oscillations prove Neutrino mass, can cold Neutrinos coalesce, by gravitational attraction and aided by Neutrinos not having charge, into an object ? Apart from the mass of a Neutrino matter object, could such an object even be seen or if an asteroid sized or larger Neutrino matter object struck the Earth, would we even detect the event ?
+VY Canis It hasn't at least in principle, but the LHC measurements and lack of detection of SUSY partners show, that some of the super symmetric hypothesis that predicted SUSY particles at lower energies can be ruled out. Further measurements at higher energies will show, if this is also true at higher energies (thereby also ruling out the remaining SUSY hypothesis), or of if the first super symmetric partners are to be found. Also quite interesting in regards of dark matter.
Yeah, I would like to hear more about this too. I'd be chuffed to bits if we had a solid confirmation of SUSY, but sadly, it doesn't look like that's in the cards. The quest continues I guess.
It is not vast...majority of SUSY models were crap and are ruled out. SUSY is a tale of poetic theorists who want to keep their bread and butter. Otherwise, no SUSY......even SM Higgs was just made not discovered.
According to the Hubble constant, the universe is expanding at 80 percent of the speed of light, the space between some galaxies is expanding faster than the speed of light, as the Higgs boson is an elementary particle with relativistic mass how does it travel faster than the speed of light to fill the void, and where does the energy for the higgs field come from to fill the expanding universe?
Wait, am I missing something? The top quark is heavier than the Higgs boson. Then how can the Higgs boson decay into the top quark? (In addition, the decay must preserve an electric charge and other quantities; because the Higgs boson is electrically neutral, it needs to decay into a quark-antiquark pair, not into a single quark.) In other words, exactly what does the plot represent?
You're thinking in macro terms. The interactions are not between "billiard balls." It takes a massive (hey a pun) amount of energy to get a top quark, so it's that energy that "fuels" the new mass. Electron volts are used as a measure of mass for a reason.
The Higgs boson does not give mass. The Higgs field gives mass. The Higgs boson does not exist in nature, its half life is far too short and it takes too much energy to make. But its discovery under the extreme conditions of the LHC gives almost conclusive support to the existence of the Higgs field.
This is non-sense. If there were an all pervading Higgs field in space it would be detectable at the macro level via some large scale experiment like the equally doubtful detection of gravity waves that has been claimed. Additionally, it would invalidate the assertion of Relativity that there is no way of establishing a preferred inertial frame of reference, otherwise does this Higgs Field move instantaneously in every direction simultaneously so as to never contribute to a locally variably energetic Higgs field. The Higgs field is either there and interacts with 'force particles' and would have a detectable interaction with matter moving thru space or it is not there and it is not detectable. How can gravity (the force of gravity being proportional to the masses involved) bend the path of photons if the Higgs Boson does not confer mass to massless quarks and leptons? This theory is saying that mass and gravity have nothing to do with each other and this is asserted in contraction to empirical facts. Gravity further extends at substantial distances beyond the reach of imaginary Higgs Bosons which rapidly decay, so how does this disconnect between mass conferring Higgs Boson interaction and the force of gravity come about? Particles which have mass are affected by all other particles that have mass, and they interact collectively on the macro scale. How then is energy distributed and redistributed, or not, to all particles in the Higgs field when particles with mass move thru the field? If this sort of mechanism were not true than a black hole would not have an event horizon, it would exist uniformly throughout space, or it could not exist at all. Thus the Higgs field must be locally variable and in this theory mass and the force of gravity have been disconnected. How do these theoreticians project the interaction of the Higgs Field with gravity waves? How exactly is a matter field different from a force field when neither are defined outside of unproven, un-demonstrable mathematical models. They are asking us to believe an all pervasive field exists everywhere which confers mass to all particles which have mass, in a universe in which gravity is a pervasive force and that this Higgs Boson field can not be detected, and that mass that it creates is functionally and operationally disconnected from gravity, does not create locally variable frames of inertial reference when acting on any scale. These theories are utter non-sense and double talk.
My question is here, why would some particles interact more with higgs field? What is the reason? While they have the same size example: a quark and an electron have almost the same size, but a quark is much heavier than an electron? Can anyone help plz? Sorry for my bad English. :)
7:12 I agree and what a great statement: "we scientists must accept the truth, whatever that may be...... dear mr Don Lincoln, do you realy mean that when you said that ?
What does he mean by 'Higgs boson prefers to decay'? Special emphasis on prefer and decay. Also, what are we plotting on the graph? Probability? Why is it linear?
OK, spin is another one where you need to see the math. Basically, the math looks very similar to the equations that describe rotational inertia. It's not really "spin" as observed in the macro world.
I might have asked this before, but I forgot, and that is how does the Higgs field, which gives mass to stuff, tie in with gravity? I know there was a previous video on Quantum Gravity, and that may be the answer to this, but if it is, how does it explain the Higgs mass - gravity connection?
Is spacetime made out of that same energy? It seems to be as if they are all dependent, space, time, matter, dark matter, dark energy, fields, bosons. Energy seems to be the independent variable that rules them all!?
I assume you mean matter, photons, dark matter, dark energy regarding types of energy. When I think of energy I am thinking of it as raw symmetric energy. As the energy instantly formed in a positron electron collision, after some time it becomes one of the above types of energy. So perhaps with enough funding, in such a collision a spacetime elementary particle pops out. Or is spacetime something else. It seems it must be made of some kind of energy.
I watched the video on Quantum Foam again, and I asked a similar question. I was thinking the foam was the spacetime, but you answered that it might, or might not be. I also watched the superstring video and now I am wondering what these strings are made of, and in what are they vibrating. I guess the strings are God's hairs, and those hairs are on his Brane, but what is a Brane made of?
if co called strings excist they would not be anything like the notion of a string, maybe an oscillation of an energy field, likely a defined disturbance in the fabric of space, since space is made up of 100 percent energy
woa stop right there buddy, science isn't what you think. You are making too many guesses based upon a few youtube videos. If you want to know the truth, you gotta go find it and prove it, with the use of science knowledge of course.
Krush Go because the Higgs field gives the mass to the particles involved in the standard model including weak and EM forces. Also the Higgs boson is quantum mechanically necessary for some interactions.
I wonder if standard model will ever be complete... The way I see it, we will have to invent more and more particles to account for ever smaller anomalies in the model. Kind of like a perturbation theory, where each interaction is a superposition of infinite number of ever less likely interactions.
@Fermilab So does this mean we are all with everything around us are living submerged in an ocean of 'Higgs Field'. And since we are really 'mass-y' we are interacting quite a bit. And comparatively 'air' particles are minute and thus they interact very minutely and thus its mass is so insignificant that we cant even see it! So basically Higgs Field is a most-possibly-feasible answer to prove the 'medium' or 'nothing-ness' in which everything floats!!! Okay! Makes sense to me! There can't really be nothing in which everything 'is'.
Your each and every video is awesome!!!
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I Agree. Dr. Lincoln is amazing. I am planning a trip from KATL to KMDW just to tour the facility this summer.
The best Particle Physics and Astrophysics channel ever for me!!! You explain complex terms so simply but with exact preciseness...your channel deserves more subscriptions and likes!!! Please keep making videos
- Thank You!!
"Neutrinos: very small" #legit
A Scholar, Gent and Sportsman.
I am confused by your use of the word “decay.” How does anything with 125 GeV “decay” into something that has 172 GeV?
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if it is moving real fast
@@nmarbletoe8210 Thanks. Sincerely. That has to be the most enlightened answer EVER! It’s no wonder why I majored in Liberal Arts. Again, Thanks!!!
I agree with Paul this was an unexpectedly enlightening answer. Thanks!
If you was my high school physics professor I would be an physician today for sure. I discovered in my 30's that I enjoy physics and astrophysics, in high school actually I didn't understand it because no one didn't explained how it works, they just provided us formula for calculations and that's it.
In the meantime please work on your English.
@Neil Rusling The answer is curriculum and exams on aforementioned curriculum.
They teach you the stuff society has deemed useful.
Mostly pragmatic stuff like V=IR etc.
I didn't encounter the Maxwell field equations until Uni and at that point my maths wasn't up to the job anymore so I had to drop my 3rd Science; Physics and concentrate on Computing.
Honestly the jump between Scottish Higher Physics and 1st year Uni Physics was crazy. It was crazy in computing too but I had much more of a handle on that.
I still love physics and appreciate the pop-sci explanations of it on you tube hence why I'm here.
Luv and Peace.
"If you WERE my high school professor, I would be A PHYSICIST today for sure."
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"no one explained".
PHYSICIAN is a medical doctor.
PHYSICIST is the word you meant.
The discovery of the Higgs field and its associated particle...I count as one of the most important events for all people that happened during my lifetime.
Well, I think the history books will look back on climate change, not on the Higgs, to be honest.
what about that summer in 2013, where you got 3 for 2 at Mikes Chicken Shack?
@@carpii damn it, missed it!
Cheers Dr. Don Lincoln, and thank you for taking us along with you in your quest to understand the fundamental constituents of our world!
You are amazing! If I had this in high school I would have continued to study physics ! But what you do to us masses in breaking down the complex world of quantum physics is like someone getting to read a book for the first time!
"Since when you've become an expert in theoretical physicist?"
"Less than 10 minutes ago"
Star Trek Theory how is it fake
Yay, a Fermilab video. This is the best birthday gift I could have. I love the videos and I'll wait excited for the fermions/bosons video ♥️🌚
They need to simplify these complicated theories into spermions and boobieons, ya know. jk
Cheers indeed!
Always great videos from Mr Lincoln.
Don Lincoln does such a great job explaining this very complex stuff to even us lay people who just want to learn for personal reasons. Cheers to that. 🎉
Dear Professor Lincoln, Thanks for the great explanations.
Can you please make a play list with only talks from Dr. Don and put them in the most logical order to watch?
Daan Luining yes My request also, although do your best because I know there may not be perfect logical order.
I love this guy!
Standard Model Article on their website is a must read
Thank God and science for people like you. Keep up the good work!
Wonderful overview for the public. Great presenter. Why not show this to 13 year olds? Scientific ideas are fun, easy and natural. Spend a week putting Higgs-Boson together for them is a gift that will keep giving for a lifetime. Glad I found this series. Thanks.
Found myself thinking that bosons are like the 'pop' in soda. Ie the idea that a gas could be dissolved into a solution, and released when excited by a nucleation point is similar to the function of bosons in an atomic structure - like photons in an xray. They're the hidden force ('pop') holding everything we know as 'soda' together. When excited by an external force (or maybe a stray electron) the photon becomes excited and ejects itself from the structure, leaving behind a slightly altered and 'flatter' soda.
More I hear more interesting it becomes. Always good practice and productice to hear about science and technology.
I will have to say that Dr. Lincoln has been the best presenter of this stuff by far. He has a gift to "dumb" it down to where anyone can get the gist of it. Thank you!
Glad to participate with your ingenuity Sir, of course, at my Golden Age level.
Physics ROCKS! Awesome people! Thank you!
Well nothing rocks more than Geology.
What is the Y axis in reference to on your graph?
You guys must celebrate often! Popping a cork like that takes a practised hand! Great channel Dr!
2 questions, Any idea about how the higgs boson interacts with other higgs particles to create a field? 2. How does electron volts relate to mass in relation to the higgs particle?
Brief and precised explaination after 60 years of theoretical predictions and experimentally found it and complete the standard model. This is just the beginning of 21st century and future scientists are awaiting for new breakthrough !!!
Congratulations!
Stupid question, but: if a Higg's Boson is what makes up the Higg's Field, how can its mass be measured in terms of how it interacts with the Higg's Field? It is the Field, right? You're measuring its mass based on how it interacts with itself? I would think it would be a Yin and Yang-type thing, where you're measuring its mass based on how it interacts with everything that ISN'T part of the Field. Sorry, I really don't know anything about physics. Just wondering...
There is no label on the vertical axis of graph at 5:15. Did I hear Don say it's the rate that Higgs decays into a particle with a give mass?
As a non-physician, I usually enjoy your videos that help me understand a little some physic principles.
This time, I've almost understood nothing (and I was familiar with the higgs field/boson theory).
There was too much new concepts :s
But thanks for your great job anyway!
Can Higgs field explain gravity f(m, d)?
How does Higgs field fit in when we say gravity is the effect of space-time distortion due to mass?
If we write, Higgs field -> Mass -> Gravity, it looks like Higgs field can explain gravity.
Interaction of particles with Higgs field causes space-time distortion and hence gravity?
Is it possible for a particle say a proton, that is moving linearly, can deviate from linear path and take angular motion, without taking a 'Pause in Motion'. Is it proton that consists of mass and energy that is in motion due to any one form of energy, stops for a fraction of time and in process lose all its energy, which either converts to more mass of that proton or that energy is given to some another mass, or that energy goes into ocean of energy that exists in vacuum and after taking an angle of some degree regain its energy back.
If all these particles in our Universe obey a rule of 'Pause in Motion' than it can conclude that time for every particles in Universe takes a pause for fraction of period. Now if two atoms {made of three different particles} are in same states than it is almost impossible to detect 'Pause Time' of one atom with help of another atom and vice versa. So any observing instrument used for this purpose also has 'Pause Time' same as the object that is observed, when both are in same states.
But when a particle accelerate towards the speed of light, the 'Pause Time' decreases. and once it reaches at a speed of light e.g. photon and neutrino the 'Pause Time' vanishes. Now for a particle moving at a speed of light, the time stops relative to the particles which are slow in motion. Keeping this in mind we come to another conclusion for time.
The more the 'Pause Time' taken by particle the fast the time runs for it and the less the 'Pause Time' taken by Particle the time runs slow for it.
This is a top notch lesson in the scientific method of verifying theory with data.
It was good to get an overview on how theortical physics meets experimental physics, for once!
How can the Higgs boson decay into a top quark when it has lower mass/energy. And why do the top quark have such a high mass?
Might this ought to help with your second question th-cam.com/video/RIg1Vh7uPyw/w-d-xo.html
kinetic energy
Good narration on Higgs-Bose particles. You narrative hardly mentions Dr. Satyendra Bose's contribution that leads to Higgs-Bose theory.
Love your subtle coolness in your presentation, but for me, Physics need no champagne...it drives me high everytime!!!
I feel the same way. The excitement from discovery fuels my brain chemistry
Higgs give mass. Mass bends space time & makes gravity. Gravitons must be stopped by Higgs field like WZ & fermions, unlike Photons. Gravitons are bigger than Photons or Gluons in whatever quantum terms apply [spin or whatever etc.]. This small size fits the weakness of gravity. Gravitons obviously don't interact radioactively or electromagnetically. Theres a window to look for gravitons. In that window, we find gravitational waves on a huge scale and maybe WIMPS. WIMPS barely interact so we cant make a size judgment on them but due to theory we know they are quite big as particles go. Maybe a quantum split experiment using the same stuff we use to try to find WIMPs, but obvs scaled down, as detectors on the end in the presence of a known change in gravitational waves will find gravitons??
Relativistic quantum mechanics is a thing. The math is beyond anything I've studied.
Thanks for breaking it down for the mathematically challenged! Love your videos
mathematically challenged lmao.
"Who isnt?" Lol
Does the difference in spin have any physical meaning for bosons? If yes then kindly explain how?
If it is the interaction with the higgs field that gives these fundamental particles their masses then I guess the question I have is this:
Why do some particles interact more with the higgs field than others? In the analogy of the higgs field as water, the particles must differ in their 'streamlined-ness' to explain their differing interaction with the water. Do we know the quality that is causally responsible for this difference in interaction, if it is not size?
unknown!
I would have liked the video if they had humored us by telling what the Y-axis of the graph stood for. .
You're the best Don. Happy New Year.
dr. don, ok, so I am made up of higgs bosons that pop up out of a higgs field, so as I move through space, do my bosons just skate along the field, or do they disapear and pop up on the field as I move through/ along it?
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sir is there posible way to extract the higgs bosson for further analysis?
If subatomic particles interacting with the Higgs field get their mass, then why don’t larger particles like protons and neutrons do the same? The key is “why”. Because p and n are larger, or “collections” of quarks “cancel” out mass? Or because we just can’t measure it?
Protons and neutrons have mass because of the higgs field, as per the standard model.
Princeofcups Poc I should have wrote my question better... quarks get mass from the Higgs field, and quarks make up protons and neutrons. But the combined quark mass is only a small part of the proton or neutron mass. The larger part being the energy holding the quarks together. So my question is does the Higgs field interact with this energy thus providing mass? I guess not. The mass from the energy is just the relativistic effect.
Complicated! I read that the Higgs boson discovered in 2012 had only 1/4 the mass that was expected?
Also, where does the graviton fit into the standard model?
my man dr don poppin bottles for the higgs boson
I'm not a physicist. What's this about Higgs bosons "decaying" into other particles. First I heard of this. Is there some video explaining this?
Mass in kilograms = Charge in Coulombs squared x 10 to the power -7, divided by distance between two charges. So, where did Higgs Boson come into this equation for mass ?
I'd say it came out of the math used to describe the "transformation" or decay of one particle into another.
How does magnetism effect the Higgs filed? Gravity? It would seem that wave particle duality and the uncertainty that goes along with it... would suggest perhaps the presence of another, yet unknown field. This could account for the "grainularity" of light.
It doesn't. As war as we know, the fields operate independently. Although they sometimes conflict, like gravity affecting particles until they are really really close, then the strong force takes over.
This explanation was very helpful. Thank you for providing information a layperson can understand.
Cheers to you Dr. L!!! Y'all are amazing!
So how can a top quark weigh more than an atom with 79 protons, and even more neutrons? Should they not each contain quarks, and with top quarks popping in, would that not tip the scale drastically? Think I'm missing something.
A top quark doesn't combined with other quarks to form matter. They are very short lived and can only be studied by creating them using the Large Hadron Collider. They were predicted by the Standard Model, which is why we knew how and where to look for them, but beyond that they are not believed to play any part in the building blocks of matter.
It's kind of like those highly unstable elements at the very bottom of the Periodic Table. They're not stable enough to be useful for anything since they decay into other particles almost instantly, but we know they can exist, and we know how to create them, if only for a fraction of a second.
Can the graviton if it is ever verified further complete the standard model as it is not yet unified with the others?
The Top quark is heavier than the Higgs boson and yet the Higgs decays into Tops? (among others)
From Wiki: Production Because top quarks are very massive, large amounts of energy are needed to create one.
I hate to use this description (since you really need the math to understand it), but you could say that that energy is converted into the observed mass.
Still wondering what mass is. Should particles that interact more with the Higgs Boson slow down? if so how this motion is related to the mass of an object? I guess they build up the inertia of an object, but then what about the gravity interaction? :(
Wait. I didn't catch whether you answered this: does the higgs field give mass to fermions too?
Leo Staley yes it did
I wonder what spin has any correlation with the higg field.
Is mass just a measurement of how much a particle interacts with the Higgs field?
Jim Honkos yes some particles consisting of quarks and leptons and W and Z bosons. Not true for larger particles like protons and neutrons which are “combinations” of the other particles. In this case the energy holding the particles together is the measured mass.
hey sir how would the energy field in higgs boson will interact to the particles of antimatter and what would be its result
I remember that day, it's was amazing! Thank 2016 brought us the gravtational waves, a great discovery too.
Thank you for all your videos. I’m admittedly a science lay person, and I have to hold on with both hands to understand these concepts. So I apologize if this is a facially dumb question, but I’m gonna ask it anyway.
If the Higgs Boson provides mass to the other elementary particles, why isn’t it also responsible for gravity? My (again, admittedly limited) understanding of gravity can be summarized by the John Wheeler quote:
"Mass tells space-time how to curve, and space-time tells mass how to move”.
If this is a correct (if overly simplified) summary of gravity, then why isn’t gravity just a byproduct of the Higgs Field and its interaction with spacetime. Almost as if gravity is an imaginary force that is really just describing the interaction of mass (by way of the Higgs Field) with spacetime? Why is a separate theoretical particle such as the graviton necessary to describe the gravitational force?
...The only way to truly gain insight into these concepts is mathematically. But that means you have to be fluent in that language and have an understanding of other concepts as well.
It's impossible to truly understand or explain it by translating it into another form of communication. Visual and verbal explanations will always be flawed.
It's like translating a poem into another language. There's a lot of underlying stuff that are lost in translation.
Reading a flat out translated poem will probably cause confusion. The original language rhymes, it has sayings, some words have double meanings, some words sound the same, inflection changes meaning specific to that language, slang, popular phrases, etc, etc.
It all gets lost in translation.
If sometimes you feel more confused after an explanation of something like relativity, this is why.
@@tylerdurden3722 this is an excellent analogy!
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Cheers Dr. Don lincoln . You are the reason why I spend lots of ,y free time on your website. And it`s because it is always interesz^^ting what You are telling us there. I am actually a biologist but became really interested in particle pysics after I visited the Large Hadron collider in Genevy with my youngest son. He is currently doing his work as an apprentice at famous watchmaker Bucherer in Lucerne. Hope he continues studiying so well. love your videos. Because to cite You "Physics is Everything"!
Thank you so much for this channel!
how does the word "discovery" mean in this context?
So nicely explained. Short and simple .thanks
I remember the discovery of the Higgs boson particle very well. It was on the cover of an issue of New Scientist (slightly embarrassed now that I used to be so into that magazine), where, predictably, it was referred to as the "God particle". I read it while sitting in a car outside my local supermarket and drinking a Coke.
How can Higgs boson decay into a top qark, if the latter has more mass? Maybe one of these masses is not accurate enough? Or am I missing something?
3:48. "You often hear people say that Higgs bosons interact more with heavy particles ." Yeah, all the time! Especially at family get-togethers! Just found your channel. Don't understand any of it, Lovin' it!
awesome!!!!
as always 😉
So, if I understand correctly, the Higgs field is like an ether/field/medium that transfers mass to these sub atomic particles depending on the degree of interaction exerted by the former on latter?
Great video! Thanks for the knowledge so well broken down :)
As Neutrinos are Fermions and can not overlap quantum states, Pauli
exclusion principle, while Neutrino oscillations prove Neutrino mass,
can cold Neutrinos coalesce, by gravitational attraction and aided by
Neutrinos not having charge, into an object ?
Apart from the mass of a Neutrino matter object, could such an object
even be seen or if an asteroid sized or larger Neutrino matter object
struck the Earth, would we even detect the event ?
Steaphany we don't really have the tech to play with neutrinos yet :(
Except for atoms, most of these particles decay pretty rapidly. There are a lot of possible interactions that we still have no way to observe.
With no new particle's discovered, how much has SUSY been ruled out?
+VY Canis
It hasn't at least in principle, but the LHC measurements and lack of detection of SUSY partners show, that some of the super symmetric hypothesis that predicted SUSY particles at lower energies can be ruled out. Further measurements at higher energies will show, if this is also true at higher energies (thereby also ruling out the remaining SUSY hypothesis), or of if the first super symmetric partners are to be found. Also quite interesting in regards of dark matter.
it's really hard to rule it out, even if we don't find it any time soon it can always be that our colliders and detectors just aren't good enough.
Yeah, I would like to hear more about this too. I'd be chuffed to bits if we had a solid confirmation of SUSY, but sadly, it doesn't look like that's in the cards. The quest continues I guess.
I think it's quite hard rule out Super-Symmetry just yet since it's fairly vast.
It is not vast...majority of SUSY models were crap and are ruled out. SUSY is a tale of poetic theorists who want to keep their bread and butter. Otherwise, no SUSY......even SM Higgs was just made not discovered.
According to the Hubble constant, the universe is expanding at 80 percent of the speed of light, the space between some galaxies is expanding faster than the speed of light, as the Higgs boson is an elementary particle with relativistic mass how does it travel faster than the speed of light to fill the void, and where does the energy for the higgs field come from to fill the expanding universe?
James Prince space expands but velocities don’t change. And if you know where the energy is coming from you will get the noble prize.
@@waynelast1685 Think if it as running through a moving train. How fast are you really going?
@@princeofcupspoc9073 any speed I want but not faster than c.
Wait, am I missing something? The top quark is heavier than the Higgs boson. Then how can the Higgs boson decay into the top quark? (In addition, the decay must preserve an electric charge and other quantities; because the Higgs boson is electrically neutral, it needs to decay into a quark-antiquark pair, not into a single quark.) In other words, exactly what does the plot represent?
MikeRosoftJH not a spontaneous decay?
You're thinking in macro terms. The interactions are not between "billiard balls." It takes a massive (hey a pun) amount of energy to get a top quark, so it's that energy that "fuels" the new mass. Electron volts are used as a measure of mass for a reason.
You are missing that there can also be kinetic energy that gets converted to mass
The Higgs boson does not give mass. The Higgs field gives mass. The Higgs boson does not exist in nature, its half life is far too short and it takes too much energy to make. But its discovery under the extreme conditions of the LHC gives almost conclusive support to the existence of the Higgs field.
This is non-sense. If there were an all pervading Higgs field in space it would be detectable at the macro level via some large scale experiment like the equally doubtful detection of gravity waves that has been claimed. Additionally, it would invalidate the assertion of Relativity that there is no way of establishing a preferred inertial frame of reference, otherwise does this Higgs Field move instantaneously in every direction simultaneously so as to never contribute to a locally variably energetic Higgs field. The Higgs field is either there and interacts with 'force particles' and would have a detectable interaction with matter moving thru space or it is not there and it is not detectable. How can gravity (the force of gravity being proportional to the masses involved) bend the path of photons if the Higgs Boson does not confer mass to massless quarks and leptons? This theory is saying that mass and gravity have nothing to do with each other and this is asserted in contraction to empirical facts. Gravity further extends at substantial distances beyond the reach of imaginary Higgs Bosons which rapidly decay, so how does this disconnect between mass conferring Higgs Boson interaction and the force of gravity come about? Particles which have mass are affected by all other particles that have mass, and they interact collectively on the macro scale. How then is energy distributed and redistributed, or not, to all particles in the Higgs field when particles with mass move thru the field? If this sort of mechanism were not true than a black hole would not have an event horizon, it would exist uniformly throughout space, or it could not exist at all. Thus the Higgs field must be locally variable and in this theory mass and the force of gravity have been disconnected. How do these theoreticians project the interaction of the Higgs Field with gravity waves? How exactly is a matter field different from a force field when neither are defined outside of unproven, un-demonstrable mathematical models. They are asking us to believe an all pervasive field exists everywhere which confers mass to all particles which have mass, in a universe in which gravity is a pervasive force and that this Higgs Boson field can not be detected, and that mass that it creates is functionally and operationally disconnected from gravity, does not create locally variable frames of inertial reference when acting on any scale. These theories are utter non-sense and double talk.
I beg to differ. The squaring of Fraction Axiom is Rather False. (1/3)^2 = 13 2+2=4 not 5
Does the Higgs field contain Superstrings or visa versa?
Hi how come the Gamma and photon symbols are the same?
My question is here, why would some particles interact more with higgs field?
What is the reason?
While they have the same size example: a quark and an electron have almost the same size, but a quark is much heavier than an electron? Can anyone help plz?
Sorry for my bad English. :)
Wouldn't the Higgs Field have been discovered and not "invented"? Not trying to nit pick here, just curious.
7:12 I agree and what a great statement: "we scientists must accept the truth, whatever that may be......
dear mr Don Lincoln, do you realy mean that when you said that ?
You, good sir, are an excellent teacher.
What is the y-axis of the graph that's shown starting at th-cam.com/video/1AamFQWwh94/w-d-xo.html?
What is a spin, and why did the scientists in mid 60s think that weak nuclear force and electromagnetism are similar?
What does he mean by 'Higgs boson prefers to decay'? Special emphasis on prefer and decay.
Also, what are we plotting on the graph? Probability? Why is it linear?
OK, spin is another one where you need to see the math. Basically, the math looks very similar to the equations that describe rotational inertia. It's not really "spin" as observed in the macro world.
Cheers, Doctor!
Does higgs field give mass to gluons ? Is it done by higgs mechanism ?
Gluons are massless.
I might have asked this before, but I forgot, and that is how does the Higgs field, which gives mass to stuff, tie in with gravity? I know there was a previous video on Quantum Gravity, and that may be the answer to this, but if it is, how does it explain the Higgs mass - gravity connection?
Is spacetime made out of that same energy? It seems to be as if they are all dependent, space, time, matter, dark matter, dark energy, fields, bosons. Energy seems to be the independent variable that rules them all!?
I assume you mean matter, photons, dark matter, dark energy regarding types of energy. When I think of energy I am thinking of it as raw symmetric energy. As the energy instantly formed in a positron electron collision, after some time it becomes one of the above types of energy. So perhaps with enough funding, in such a collision a spacetime elementary particle pops out. Or is spacetime something else. It seems it must be made of some kind of energy.
I watched the video on Quantum Foam again, and I asked a similar question. I was thinking the foam was the spacetime, but you answered that it might, or might not be. I also watched the superstring video and now I am wondering what these strings are made of, and in what are they vibrating. I guess the strings are God's hairs, and those hairs are on his Brane, but what is a Brane made of?
if co called strings excist they would not be anything like the notion of a string, maybe an oscillation of an energy field, likely a defined disturbance in the fabric of space, since space is made up of 100 percent energy
woa stop right there buddy, science isn't what you think. You are making too many guesses based upon a few youtube videos. If you want to know the truth, you gotta go find it and prove it, with the use of science knowledge of course.
Neutrinos are not Leptons and the Higgs mechanism doesn't explain the neutrino mass. The Seasaw mechanism could if proven.
Neutrinos ARE leptons.
If photon don't interact with highs field, how can we say that highs theory is the bandaid theory of WN force and EM force ?
Krush Go because the Higgs field gives the mass to the particles involved in the standard model including weak and EM forces. Also the Higgs boson is quantum mechanically necessary for some interactions.
What that mean .. We interect higgs field more than fermions that we have more mass
Dr. Don is right on
you are back
I wonder if standard model will ever be complete... The way I see it, we will have to invent more and more particles to account for ever smaller anomalies in the model. Kind of like a perturbation theory, where each interaction is a superposition of infinite number of ever less likely interactions.
I would like to buy some bosons, are they expensive ?
@Fermilab So does this mean we are all with everything around us are living submerged in an ocean of 'Higgs Field'. And since we are really 'mass-y' we are interacting quite a bit. And comparatively 'air' particles are minute and thus they interact very minutely and thus its mass is so insignificant that we cant even see it!
So basically Higgs Field is a most-possibly-feasible answer to prove the 'medium' or 'nothing-ness' in which everything floats!!!
Okay! Makes sense to me!
There can't really be nothing in which everything 'is'.