if you were a fish would you know that the entire world in which you existed was contain and substance called water you probably wouldn't even know it because had always been in it you could not see breathe travel or exist outside of it water would just be there it would take it for granted you're probably not even known that it was a substance that you are living in it would just be kind of a liquid field that permeates your entire world we humans also live in such a field that permeates the entire universe we live
there without which we could not exist what is this field and what does the god particle have to do with it I'll explain in the next three minutes in the second half of the 20th century physicists developed something called a standard model of particle physics nearly all phenomena and the underlying particles that make up the ultimate building blocks of the universe can be explained by this model except gravity this model consists of twelve fundamental particles that make up all matter and for particles called bosons responsible for three fundamental forces of nature strong force the weak
force and electromagnetism gravity is another force it is not part of this model but it can be modeled using general relativity with the recipe provided in the standard model and gravity we can pretty much build everything in the entire universe however up until 2012 the standard model had a gaping flaw according to its underlying theory all force carrying particles should be massless so although the photon is indeed massless experiments show that the weak forces bosons have mass so here was a promising model that could be used to explain our universe but perhaps it would need
to be thrown out because it had the seemingly fatal flaw in being inconsistent regarding the way the weak force worked in the late 1950s physicists had no idea how to resolve these issues all attempts to solve this problem just seemed to create new theoretical problems then in 1964 physicists including Peter Higgs hypothesized that perhaps the force particles were massless but gained mass when they interacted with an energy field that permeated the entire universe we tend to think of mass as an intrinsic property of all things yet physicists believe that without the Higgs boson mass fundamentally
doesn't exist the Higgs field was thought to be responsible for the fact that some particles that should not have mass do it is in a sense the universal medium which gives particles our mass and without mass the universe would not exist so the Higgs boson is so important that it was sensationally labelled the god particle by journalist how does it work well it is theorized that different particles interact differently with the field the particles that interact with it more intensely have greater mass and particles that don't interact with it as much let's use the analogy
of the water certain shapes like a pointed nose fish would be able to flow very quickly through the water because of its low resistance while a block would have higher resistance and would interact with the water to a greater degree subatomic particles interact with this Higgs field in a similar way particles that don't interact as much with the Higgs bosons in the Higgs field have lower mass and particles that interact with more Higgs bosons as they move through the field have higher mass just like h2o makes up water the Higgs boson makes up the Higgs
field the Higgs boson was only a theory up until 2012 when the Large Hadron Collider confirmed its existence according to the standard model now the Higgs field exists throughout space via the Higgs mechanism this field causes the bosons of the weak force to be massive when the weak force bosons acquire mass this affects their range which becomes very small it was later realized that the same Higgs field also explains why other fundamental constituents of matter like electrons and quarks also have mass so like the fish need water to breathe we need the Higgs field to
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