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One Universe, please!
2012, Higgs boson; 2013, Nobel PrizeBowl space-time + new fieldIngredients 36 +1 elementary particlesRecipe 4 +1 elementary forces
2012, Higgs boson; 2013, Nobel PrizeBowl space-time + new fieldIngredients 36 +1 elementary particlesRecipe 4 +1 elementary forces
What allows us to exist?
Peter Higgs
PsychologyBiologyChemistryPhysicsPhysicsPhysicsPhysics
ConsciousnessCellsMoleculesAtomsNucleiSubatomic particlesElementary particles
What allows us to exist?
What makes atoms stable?
University of Toronto
m=0 kg
m>0 kg
www.bryan-kennedy.com
m=0 kg
m>0 kg
What allows us to exist?
What makes atoms stable?
What slows particles down?
Id Idea 1964Proof 2012Nobel 2013
Here comes video with tray (space)ping pong balls (particles)sugar (Higgs field)and sugar cubes (Higgs particles).
What allows us to exist?
What makes atoms stable?
What slows particles down?
Higgs field and boson!
The experiment is the supreme judge of a theory.
Two independent observations are needed.
ATLAS CMS
What allows us to exist?
What makes atoms stable?
What slows particles down?
Higgs field and boson!
How CERN confirmed it?
What allows us to exist?
What makes atoms stable?
What slows particles down?
Higgs field and boson!
How CERN confirmed it?
What’s next for the Higgs boson?
Current theoryOne Higgs boson
A more general theory?More Higgs bosons
What’s next?
New phenomena?
Space-time archaeology?
Travel to distant stars?
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