The Moment: CERN Scientist Announces Higgs Boson 'God Particle' Discovery 

FYI the elderly gentleman in the crowd who was emotional was Peter Higgs, the physicist who predicted the existence of the particle in the 1960s.

You did it Pete! You're a part of history. And you lived to see it happen. Good for you mate.

RIP Peter Higgs What an honor to see a life's work come to fruition.

Just think, we all lived to see the Higgs Field to be real AND Gravitational Waves. All within only 4 years!

My favourite moment of the year was watching Peter Higgs cry.

I remember being on a shift serving a coffee to Peter Higgs in his local science department, I didn't even know who he was, until I asked a colleague why there was a giant painting of the man I served a coffee to in the stairway. Incredibly humbled man and amazing physicist of our time.

Ladies and gentlemen... we got em.

I remember this, what a badass day for science. Also seeing Peter Higgs cry tears of joy was beautiful, all those years of hard work and he was able to see it come to fruition before he passes away.

If he hadn't said a standard of 5 deviations I never would have believed it.

Two hundred years ago, people experimented with electiricy. How the hell was this supposed to help people to stop starving? They didn't have an answer. Of course, today, electricity is used to power farming equipment for mass production and refrigeration for food preservation. My point is that we don't know how this new particle will be helpful to fighting hunger, or whatever. But knowing more opens up more possibilities than knowing less.

I'm here just after the news of Peter Higgs' death. I know zilch about physics but I've been seeing the news about CERN and all that since this all started. A great man

So this is how Penny feels when speaking to Sheldon.....

Dr Higgs was crying, hell ya, I would too.

It's so boggling how this clip makes me tear up really bad. Beautiful event in our history. Thanks Pete.

The people in this hall alone make up 99.99% of the total sum of IQ of everyone on earth.

I cant imagine what it's like to know that billions were spent on trying to prove your theory as correct, the weight on your shoulders must have been huge. The tears must have not only been a huge sigh relief, but also pride in how he changed the understanding of physics forever. He deserved that Nobel prize, very intelligent man.

I'm watching this video 10 years later as it happened. It still sends chills down my spine. Best wishes to Peter and to Everyone involved in the research, support staff, friends and families of the researchers, whose support is very much needed but often under appreciated.

a one in 4 million chance (5 sigma) that the Higgs boson was not detected means a nobel prize..hence the tears. CONGRATS HIGGS AND CERN!

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RIP Peter Higgs, you were a brilliant mind

It would be Great if you people go back to the caucus mountains. Message from the Chief.ACCTOA.

A big "Thank You" to thousands of scientists and engineers around the world... they have dedicated so much of their lives to make this glorious day come true... you have served humanity well... lets hope younger generation of scholars will takeover the mantle with as much devotion.

Like Peter, I cry when I watch this! It's so exciting!

for fucks sake. Its not a "god particle"

While I love science, the way scientists speak in a monotone during lectures just makes it painfully boring

I can ask them stop and then explain my reasons as to why they should stop. If it works at least one time then it was worth doing. I am equating the act of calling the Higgs Boson the God Particle as being dumb. Your sarcasm was in support of this dumb behavior, and thus I cautioned against the dumb behavior. My comment is only an insult if you chose to call the Higgs Boson the God Particle. It's only an insult if you chose to be dumb. If you chose to be dumb, that's hardly my fault.

If i do an iq test average for those folk in the room i wonder what i'll come up with.. 130,or 140, maybe higher :o

Man I cried when I found that scientists found the Higgs Boson. I'm just someone VERY interested in these kind of stuff, not a real scientist. Very excited to see where modern science is headed toward

Even if God does not exist, the CERN scientists still did not 'create' the Higgs-Boson. It still was always there. And if God did not create it, then it was simply created by itself. I dont see how stating that God created the Higgs makes its discovery any less significant.

another day another particle!

Just to clarify with people this is not the 'god' particle. It is a miss quote of a physicist that said something along the lines of it being so 'god dam' hard to find. The media then decided to spin it as the god particle. For those of you wondering what the 5 sigma represents it represents the certainty that they have found it. It basically means that the change of this being a fluke reading is 1 in 5 million.

This logic leads nowhere. (If you are theist, than you can ask where did god came from) Its either come from "nothing" or the universe repeat itself....

How will this change my life? Yours? It just calms my curiosity but everything else remains the same. Stop fighting about religion!

"I THINK WE HAVE IT" not very positive is it 🤔 *NO* THIS IS to assauage the millions who invested in CERN 🤣

Same reaction would be if Steven Hawking saw the first black hole image

So call it the Goddamn particle.

They COULD HAVE discovered it BUT HAVE NOT discovered it 😓

Nobody says: "We discovered" then try to prove it to you with schematics. So *NO*

They sound like NASA behind- the-scene staff applauding their "highers and betters" agreeing with them so they don't lose their jobs LOL

To be fair and transparent, the Higgs boson and the Higgs field have not been discovered. Something has been which according to Professor Lawrence Krauss is "Higgs-like", yet the certainty is not there yet. Mind you, it's fun to explore all of the excitement, focus, and warranted joy surrounding High-energy Physics and its implications on how the world works.

Science is quite the opposite of religion.

"we are a way for the cosmos to know itself" big bravo!

goosebumps!

a truly great scientist & a great RESPET to many more like him who pushes frontiers of science & humanity forward ...

Peter Higgs is really feeling happy now today on 4th July 2021. At least on this day. His crying scene makes everyone crying. What a touching moment! He predicted, he also experienced in person and he'd be like, yeah! I've seen the nature in right way...

They have very, very, very good reason to believe we found the Higgs-boson. It's the last particle that was needed to be confirmed in order to validate the standard model of particle physics.

The Higgs boson should be in every watch on the arm

I stood up and clapped for Peter Higgs, a completely extraordinary moment for him. a huge moment for cosmology & our understanding of Physics.

LHC is kind of disappointment so far. They sold higgs well to general public but higgs was chased for couple of years in fermilab, it was spoted they just didnt get to five sigma but indicated the mass interval pretty closely and shut down the collider because it was economically useless given LHC was opened, LHC "just" finished the job. Since then nothing significant. No sign of supersymmetry particles or something else.

The old man who was overcome to tears is Peter Higgs, that is just awesome.

7 Billion people should have watched that fantastic moment. I've just studied simple Engineering and it's overwhelming what has been achieved in that moment of sience history. All these geniouses, specially Mr. Higgs himself, in one room. What a great moment. Let's keep on searching for the secrets and miracels in the universe. There's much more to discover...

gods we are not

as an atheist and scientist this made me cry. the idea that there are real answers to be found just around the corner is amazing . thank you men and women who never stop asking "why" and "how"?

Anyone who has ever put their heart and soul into a project can relate to what Peter Higgs was feeling

Peter Higgs himself was amazed he actually lived to see this day! LOL! But that indeed is a wonderful thing.

you had me at 5 standard deviation

Actually hold on.. no, sorry.. wait a sec.. yea.. I forgot to turn on the collider.. can we do it again?!!! Kudos to Mr Higgs 👏

Funny how we celebrate the people that hasten our demise

Ladies and Gentleman.... _we got him_

RIP Higgs!

This research team will never have to worry about funding EVER AGAIN!

Yes, he's fortunate really - historically, many theorists don't live to see the eventual proof of their hypotheses, even at a tentative stage like this one.

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There are two feelings that surround me all the time, in fact they're both the same feeling: 1- Realize that I, a mere human being, belong to the same species as these formidable minds. 2- Realize that I, a mere human being, belong to the same species as Snooki. I'll let you guess which of them is the one I feel proud of.

Pfff

We live in different times nowadays, we could be less selfish and more aware of other important things. In my opinion the development of civilisation should not be only technical. I can give you an example: European and US governments gave Africans the possibility to have really cheap mobile phones because they thought it would trigger some civilisation development out there, now they are dissapointed because the idea didn't give relevant results (money wasted). That is only my opinion.

hmm... since a lot of people are more concerned about their starving children they don't give a damn of some particle inducing a mass of the universe. Since I studied physics i can guess what these major implications would be: 1. the mass origin explanation, 2. the Standard Model experimental validation, 3. the Electroweak Force explanation, 4. something to do with Supersymmetry and the Dark Matter, 5. More Wasted Money for LHC ? Why don't people spend their money for more prosaic things?

Ohh I'd say lots of people currently sitting twiddling their thumbs or scratching their head wondering what all the fuss is about will have a very great impact on their lives by this discovery, well if they are 40 or younger anyway. Assuming investment in CERN continues and isn't cut back or simply shelved as it was in the US. For anyone born today this discovery will filter through this century and on the far future as something like the invention of the printing press.

1) It already had a name. 2) It has as much to do with God as does the electron or the proton. Ergo, changing the name (especially to something so irrelevant and misleading) is dumb. I never said it was the end of the world if people chose to be dumb; I just requested that they not continue to be dumb. You can continue to be dumb if you like - it's you're decision - I just wish you wouldn't.

Finding a slug is nothing compare to finding particle that is the fabric of the universe. Imagine if you run a universe, you have to fix it everytime your creation gone wrong Either you have to be unconcious - a machine yourself, or you create a machine that run itself, that's when your existence become useless God's purpose of existence is so meaningless he might as well doesnt exist. so i think of God as he is: either an unconcious machine, or uselessly nonexistence - a concept.

a wrong point in your statement: Why must there be a god ? Why must he create all thing ? Why isnt all thing just there to begin with ? This universe is already complex, so whoever make this must be even more complex, that mean there's even a more complex being create that complex being that create this universe. It go on forever. If god is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent then his existence is not needed. If god create the universe that run itself then his existence is meaningless.

Sorry, but I don't understand two things: 1st: What has science to do with religion? Really. Science is facts. Therefore you must accept science, provided that you are not insane or delusional. Then, you may or may not, as a matter of opinion, choice and philosophical stance, be religious or not. 2nd: Christianity has no proofs. The point of all religion is believing when proof is against it. Simple as that.

well it's quite simple.. any religion is based on faith.. faith that what they tell you is the truth.. It's the same thing with science, it's it? They build a 3.5 bilion tunnel and they want me to believe in their "model" or the world.. But I woudn't be able to build an atom smasher never. So I have to BELIVE them and their theories.. Which is exactly as any religion. I'm sorry but this is my viewpoint.

This bunch of geeks should find ways how to protect the Earth not spending hilarious amounts of money in a possible lead on how the Earth was made.And the and of the day it doesn't make my life better what they discovered but guys....keep the party on...it's a big discovery:)) .There was a lot a pressure because they didn't find anything and several months later this bomb comes up.Come on..we are grown ups.

People , why even care to define God? People used to define god as an all ruling king ,some define god as a holy spirit. Today even scientists try to define god in a fundamental particle. Why? Isnt everything : the biggest and even the smallest part of a grand design? Seek for Knowlege but dont expect to fully define the universe, because : it is in some ways unexplanable why it excist and why we have manifest ourselfves into excistance.

well yeah I mean fundamentalists (I'm not a native speaker,sorry), but I think fundamentalists is a pretty accurate depiction of these people,since they believe to know that their way of thinking is the only truths and arrogantly make fun of any other believes, although they are just as unknowing as anyone else. Of course not every atheist is so nutty, as not any religious dude is crazy (as often proclaimed by these fundamentalist atheists.) There's a reason it's called faith and not fact.

I am not a scientist, but I do love to ponder about this stuff. There is one thing that bothers me though, AND I would love for someone to explain this to me..... Why is it that there had to be a beginning? Are we synchronised to time, as Human beings, this is how we are. So what if there was ALWAYS a Universe and black holes and everything that we know has always been? Why do we not realise that SPACE & MATTER & TIME have always been. Maybe time does not figure in this equation?

Many people think science should be done in emotionless heartless fashion and we should not have any bias of feelings while doing science but this video is for them. Science is a subject of of true passion, love and lot of emotions. Prof. Higgs dedicated his entire life for it got lot of trouble but at the end he made it. I know there are a lot of people like him (Prof. Higgs) a salute to you guys. who are much beyond citation h-index etc.

Only 68,000+ views. Shame. & dipping into the subject a little bit will give you the same perspective they had upon hearing this information. This is big stuf...err small stuff, big news about small things where the slightest differences matter. Forgive my puns. hehhehe Can't wait for Dark Matter discoveries but I bet they'll not be what's expected as with this.

No scientist said that, even if someone did it's not absolutely 100% sure. Thing moves because they themself move, and not because some concious mind command them to move that way. One element's movement affect other element just like it.It's a chain reaction, like playing marble. Tell me who is "him" you are refering to ? Christian God ? Alah ? Yahweh ? or God as a concept ?

There is a diffirent between God create everything and everything create itself. What you say is that God create everything to be discovered, to have a purpose. Where as my perspective is that everything create itself that eventually substain life, and eventually sentient life find a way to understand the enviroment it live in.

If you knew anything, you would already understand that the earth is not "messed up", but that it has been going through changes it's entire lifespan. Example the ice age till present, I live in Canada and no sir I do not live under a 3 mile thick glacier. These guys make the biggest break through possibly ever in science and your worried about yourself...good on ya.

Yeah you haven't told me anything I didn't already know. if your reply was because i said I didn't understand what they said, I didn't mean this video, but the actual explanation and process of how they found the particle. I'm not a physicist but I'm not dumb either it is the in depth physics stuff that I don't get much.

Just to clear up this "God Particle" business. It is in fact nicknamed the god particle because a book by the physicist Leon Lederman was titled "The Goddamned Particle" due to his frustrations when trying to prove the Higgs Boson. His publisher cut the title back to "The God Particle" because he feared "Goddamned" could be too offensive. Please thumb this up so people can see.

firstly about how would it be to replace protons in Hydrogen (1 proton 1 electron) with Boson (funny ha?) and if u knew how much this discovered Boson weights you would get this joke, I advice you also to look up in Google what is "sarcasm", and later if u know it, don't forget to look up for "moron"

yes the concept of God live on, but Christian God, and every other religion's god, will be dead. That is just the start, once we grow out of our immature self and our immature fear of the unknown that we call God. im looking forward to the day we conquer the universe itself.

am i the only 1 who can see that the math is not right ? the h.b. should weigh in at 112-115 GeV according to the standard model . 125GeV . SD+-5 .IT CAN'T BE THE H.B. O spin says it must be" a" boson .who knows what ? I think we may have discovered something very mysterious .. dark matter maybe?

Perhaps it appears that way to you, because many of these people might just have some scientific acumen or qualification and feel secure enough in themselves that they don't have to announce to the world on RU-vid or Facebook that they are a Physics Major? Dunno...just saying.

money is not to be wasted on charities i agree, it is like giving them a "fish", but what they need is a "rod" to catch the "fish", so why not educate people but more generally, knowing about these particles will not cure this world either

I'm worried about all of us,not just for me,i love science but i guess it's kinda weird that they came up with this after lots of people were saying that it was a waste of money that LHC.Maybe they didn't find anything and they said that to calm the media.

The particle was originally named "God Damned" Particle because it was so hard to find. An editor to the paper didn't like the word "Damned" and so shortened it to just "God". This particle has absolutely nothing to do with whether God exists or not.

Here is the way I described it. It's not that they observed the actual particle. What they observed is the expected results of it's existence. Kind of like the regular pattern of welts one would expect if you were smacked in the face with a waffle iron.

Anyone seen that bs "we're all HAPPY at cern" video? It's on YT! The Mandela effect is mentioned in it as a sort of "tongue in cheek" joke! Personally i dnt find it at all HAPPY let alone funny that most likely cern has put us all into an alternate timeline reality of which I'm not particularly "HAPPY" about if I'm honest!

the question is: Where did this particle come from???!!!!!! I mean who made it? we are used to, according to scientific rules, that everything made has something or someone make it...so where does this boson come from?

That's what I love about science. If 1 man in that room stood up with proof that they were wrong, everyone would concede, in amazement i might add. While In religion when that 1 man stands up, he is persecuted & cast out.

Peter Higgs getting emotional was beautiful. Of course in the United States we built a full-size replica of Noah's Ark, so I think we're ahead.

I like how atheists have a sense of entitlement to science, like a spoiled child not wanting to share it's shiny red ball that a school teacher gave the class for recess.

July 4! That's a happy coincidence.

0:30 wait what.... only a scientist can make it so anticlimactic... In the future they will create movies about it and they will make it SO DRAMATIC.... LOL...

Not a single virginity was lost that day.