Higgs Boson - What You Don't Know: Dan Hooper, Ph.D. at TEDxNaperville 

And that why I love scientists, their like “and we might be wrong, how cool would that be? We can learn so many new things if we got it wrong”...the complete opposite of most people’s mindsets

This is an accurate, accessible talk about a difficult subject, the hardest kind of talk to do. Thank you Doctor for taking your valuable time to prepare and give this talk.

I feel smart watching this

Wonderful presentation. I love TED talks!

Im looking forward to see where this fascinating discovery goes. This also reveals we have much to learn about the universe.

I would love to see the education and level of experience with particle physics that these people in the comments have that are criticizing everything about this guys talk and the Higgs.

Once I asked a CERN Physicist what an electron was. He said, "We don't know. All we do know is the mathematical relationship between our measurements." So I asked how does the measurement work? He answered, "Same deal. Everything we know about particle physics is explained in terms of particle physics measurement, using what we assume to be particles that create what we are measuring." I said, "You're talking in circles. He said, "You got a better explanation?"

ok years ago i watched a show on photons...it bothered me that noone knew how it traveled so far without a jetpack or something...i saw something at work one day dragging a mop bucket full of water..something got stuck under the wheel and the water vibrated..it looked like something i saw in a lecture about qauntum mechanics...i realized once i saw that that there were waves in space and photons were swept up in it and it goes from crest to crest without spending any time in the middle...i also envisioned these waves being compressed near solid objects like planets or asteroids creating a artificial gravity by pushing down on atoms..i also think the compressed waves around a large object could cause light to bend around that object...i sought out alot of different things on this topic to see if someone had a theory about this and found nothing...i was watching a show i think on time dialation because i think the waves being compressed or expanded can have a effect on time...and they started talking about the higgs boson field and they had a drawing of it and right then and there i realized they knew what i was talking about...i felt vindicated...the few people i told about this prob thought i was nuts..i do realize the planets revolve around the sun for different reasons which is why i believe gravities are created by multiple ways...i never found out someone had already came up with this theory because whenever i saw higgs boson i knew they were talking about a particle and i dont care about particles just the field...its my idea that this field was created by explosions on stars and supernovas and anything else that makes shockwaves which causes this field to intensify...i saw that before the big bang the higgs field was at zero which was what i thought too which emboldened me to write this...i figured if by some chance im right i better say it now...it could already be too late...also i am not educated and im not trying to sound smarter than i am...i only did what i had to do to graduate high school...i also think man made waves collapse the higgs boson field which is why when they turned on detectors in the double slit experiment the electrons were no longer waves but particles...sorry had to toss that in...i hope someone at least found this interesting...im taking the blue pill and going back to my life...thank you mr higgs and mr boson

Excellent... thanks.

I love Ted talks wonderful presentetion

STOP cutting away to show me the speaker's face - KEEP THE EQUATIONS AND THE GRAPHICS ON THE SCREEN.

Indeed, great discovery! Thanks for the informative talk.

explained nicely

I love how the speaker admits what they have found may not behave like the Higgs they predicted would, but he is only open to adding new particles with this info not changing anything in what CERN supporters already agree on even though they admit it's broken without the Higgs which CERN can barely detect even though it exists at all times and basically dictates energy turning from light or massless to having mass or solid.

In 1987, during a lunch at Fermi National lab, Leon Lederman told me that his books name was supposed to be the “God dammed particle” but his editor told him that, in order to better sell the book, the word “dammed” should be dropped. He wanted the book to be more light and funny but his editor thought that a more grandiose name will be wiser. Every explanation other than this for the “God Particle” in the title is just not true.

Turn volume up!!!

I thinking the discovery is great since u know the frequency of the higgs y not let the supercomputer play it and next angle of things the next way to capture is to slow down since it dont last be4 it transform to solid. Energy freeze it in its state

So now that the standard model seems to be complete (at least this is what the lecturer says), what now holds for string theory in the future? Are physicists going to pursue it with the same vigour?

is there graffiti on the wall at 07:43??

Graviton is still missing

I have learnt that the Higgs 'boson' was the excitement caused in the field when a particle interacts with it and not a physical part of the field, from 6:00 to 6:12, he speaks of them to be more like a little part of the field instead of the exctiation. Can anyone clear my doubt?

Like dropping pebbles into a pond dividing a unit of space/ multiplied by one unit of time. The greater the mass/energy density of inward spherical boson waves generating heat by multiplying electrical potential along cubic dynameters compressing the wave amplitude now+4-0-4+-the shorter the expanding transverse waves dividing gravity from its source. Energy compression pi +1=mass.de-compressing C2 forming acceleration-G from zero curvature, wave front by wave front as time unfolds. E2=mc2c4p2c2

This particle figures in my story POOT-A-RAMA (The Doberman-Man Chronicles). A Higgs boson (in the 1950's) smashes through a Doberman dog and then through a boy in a one-in-a-million collison....thus transferring some of the dog's DNA to the boy.....

If they collide about a hundred million pairs of protons together each second, and 1 in 10 billion collisions result in a Higgs, does that means that they got Higgs Boson every 100 second? It is not so extraordinarily rare or what I'm missing here

It would be nice if you'd cut to the slides when he's referencing them.

Physical things can be massless because as the guy just explains in this video, there is what we now call the higgs field that spans all space and through which particles travel and in doing so gain mass. However, since all particles do not interact with this field, not all particles have mass. Disclaimer: I am not a physicist and this is simply my understanding of the theory, so I may be mistaken (in which case I hope someone corrects me).

how can a physical thing be massless? thanks

There is a difference between mass and density. A cubic inch of lead, for example, is much heavier than a cubic foot of cotton candy. Size doesn't matter so much in this context.

Where's the semi-hollow?

Where did you hear that? I didn't notice him say that in this talk. If you're talking about gluons - they're not massive like the higgs.

what is the magnitude and unit of higgs field?

actually i did know

Wait a damn minute now.....so its possible the matter around us is..alive??? Or either we live in a simulated reality ? Im concerned and confused

Light is a physical thing, and is mass-less. I know that doesn't answer your question, and to be honest, it's a long answer (one of which I do not know the answer too) But that is a demonstration how something can be physical and mass-less.

Think of gravity and the higgs field as having a kind of symbiotic relationship. Both are explained as a random accident by atheists like Steven Hawking. On the subject of gravity, Hawking says, "some universes may have none, while in ours we got lucky." We don't know why they exist or how they were created. Yet each of these would be worthless without the other. That's intelligent design, and an example of why Christians love science.

Boson named after SN Bose an Indian physicist

Peter Higgs was Assited by Indian Physicist & Mathematics Genius Satyendranath Bose. Thats how Higgs Boson came into existence. But Higgs was so Fame Hungry, that He never mentioned Bose's name. He took the Credit all by Himself.

Wish I could understand this 🤦‍♂️

He never explained what practical good this will do mankind? It's fine for some academic book but can we do with this new information?

how the earth get it mass and gravity

Is that Higgs Boson you're wearing?

is it just me or is the animation at about 8:22 a bit inaccurate? it shows a collision of a proton then a bunch of (what i assume is) sub atomic particles.. he seems to explain it as if the quarks have split completely but from what i understand this can not happen. rather the quarks should spread and a bunch of sub atomic particles are produced then fly out?

String theory isn't testable using modern equipment, therefore isn't falsifiable. It's remarkably elegant, and intuitive (to a certain extent) but that doesn't mean it's right. Right now it's less of a science and more of a mathematical curiosity.

if you break the higgsfield, would you be able to travel at the speed of light?

no they did not mean that but yes one day gravitation will be quantized

If things were being done through me without any knowledge then how can i fix it all ?earth should not have to pay for what they chose to do.

Give us more money.

XX~ TIME/GOD/THOUGHT/ Neurotic ACT between the CAVITIES OF OUR little BRAINS. WE ARE ALL THINKING GODS ~THINKING THE ABSURD.

Whoo! It's not well understood by the particle physicists either, but I don't get it AT ALL.

If the Higgs Boson is made in space would it behave differently ?

All photons have mass, just no rest mass but not a one has ever been observed at rest, m=hv/c^2. Another dubious Nobel Prize.

Despite the fact that this video is about them finding physical evidence of the 'Higgs'. Yep, that dead body on the floor is all theory.

boson is inside proton but he said boson is 125 times heavier than proton ,,??? how is that possible?

Ive never met Higgs

random thoughts, can this be actually a "dark matter"? because of the way it reacts and all that.

The answer to your math problems is quite simple. The problem is that scientist have not yet figured out the difference between mass and matter. listen as he like the rest interchange the two words as if they are the same thing. the answer to all the math problems and the key to grand unification is a simple equalateral triangle other wise known as planks constant, higgs etc. it's 2D energy quin, one side positive the other negative. these come together to form 3D Matter topologies or tetrahedrons mother nature building blocks.

He said a "photon doesnt interact in anyway with higgs field".......WRONG!

you didn't actually answer my question. And given your response, you probably don't know what mass is.

Well, forget Occam's razor.... :-(

I'm waiting for the God's God particularly.

What?

Wait, is he saying science is real? Some people aren't going to like this.

My theory (Genesis of Relativity) explains EVERYTHING, including God, afterlife, end of Universe, etc... Voltage cannot be used to measure mass. Gravitational attraction is mass. Voltage is electrical charge. An electric charge spins to produce a magnetic dipole, which spins to produce the sphere which is the atom which generates the gravitational field/force. Gravity is the product of electric and magnetic forces cancelling out, leaving a net attractive force, because of the twisting of space.

very good looking... wish that he's my professor, haha

He talks like Spider-Man

Don't get a thing .

what are chances of having ANTI GOD PARTICLE?

Hahahahahahaha. You sound so 'stable' when you get all preachy. Weird.

Yada yada, whoop-dee-doo. Not that I don’t appreciate how important this discovery is. I do. However, as an everyday dude, what I want to know is what will come of this discovery. Will it make my pencil sharper? Will it provide limitless energy so I can take a spaceship to the ends of the universe? Let’s get into that lecture! I can’t seem to find it on online.

Think about how many dieying children in Africa it could have been saved and than ship them to Germany and feed them for the rest of their lifes.

Who r here after watching DARK

This guy for real? He didnt give me any real info whatsoever and the speech wasnt even interesting

loose the wig i cant take you serious lol

Boring presentation 😴