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HIGGS BOSON
• Otherwise known as Higson Particle it was predicted to exist in 1964.
• It is an elementary particle or particle made of other particles such as quarks and leptons.
• Explains why something has mass when mathematically (theoretically) it should not.
• Was the last piece of the standard model of quantum physics.
• Scientists find that as you move to the microscopic world the laws of physics breaks down. Quantum physics is the study of these altered laws.
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TOOLS OF THE TRADEHadron collider used to hurl particles at each other to create collisions and make the particles even smaller.
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MORE TO THE STORY!• As particles get smaller and smaller they do not exist
in one place but rather a field.
• Thus, particles can be in two places at one time.
• The discovery of the Higgs Boson particle lead to belief in the Higgs field.
• The Higgs field is said to be the ether to space that gives us mass.
• In extremely simple terms it would be like the water in the ocean to aquatic life; it permits the resistance and buoyancy in the material world.
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WATCH THE VIDEO
• http://www.kuriositas.com/2013/05/what-is-higgs-boson-animation.html