Public Lecture-In the Shadow of the HIGGS!

Lecture Date: Tuesday, July 31, 2012. This has been an exciting summer for particle physicists who have collectively spent the last forty years hunting for the Higgs boson. Last year, ATLAS and CMS, the two largest experiments analyzing collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider, observed tantalizing hints of this elusive particle. On July 4th, the two collaborations unveiled their latest data and announced the independent discovery of a particle. It could be the Higgs, which has long cast its shadow, but never been seen. Has the Higgs particle finally been found? Are we just seeing fluctuations of the quantum foam, or perhaps another particle not yet anticipated? What will we learn from additional data in the coming years? In this talk Emanuel will provide context for the amazing interest which these questions have generated, and where we go from here. Lecturer: Emanuel Strauss, SLAC - CERN

[@EnthusiasticCoder]

This is a far more interesting lecture:
"Demystifying the Higgs Boson with Leonard Susskind"

[@glutinousmaximus]

An electron went into a bar and saw a hot-looking positron sitting at a corner booth.
So they had a few drinks; and then a few more...
At the end of the night they got absolutely annihilated!

[@TomTom-rh5gk]

This is one of the only guys who tells the truth. Mass means gravity. The most spokes physicists say mass means slowness and that is false. It seems they forced the speaker out of physics because he told the truth.

[@frenchkittenify]

Super great talk.

[@fcinternetmarketing]

Very informative.

[@EnthusiasticCoder]

Thanks.
Can you show me where there is a lecture describing these equations?

[@d5uncr]

The theoretical knowledge has been there since the mid 60's. This (assuming it *is* the Higgs boson they've found) is just a conformation that the theoretical models and equations really do correspond to the physical world.
We already know how the electrons and all other particles derive mass from the Higgs field. It's all in the Higgs equations.

[@AndrewMaust]

Thankyou _ very informative for a layman.

[@EnthusiasticCoder]

Agreed :)

[@d5uncr]

Sorry, I can't help you there.

[@ianian8022]

Emanuel Strauss? Prince William, methinks.

[@EnthusiasticCoder]

TH-cam search "Demystifying the Higgs Boson with Leonard Susskind".

[@Moronvideos1940]

Same old video Different name.

[@EnthusiasticCoder]

Poor lecturer. No new knowledge on the subject. How do we begin to think about how to derive the mass of the electron from this boson.

[@MrKmanthie]

Enthusiastic Coder "poor lecturer"...he isn't a friggin' professor. He does this stuff for a living as opposed to sitting up in an ivory tower. But he does know more about the subject than you!