Higgs boson confirmed

woodypusher

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15 Mar 13

woodypusher

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15 Mar 13

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/14/17314249-higgs-boson-confirmation-boosts-physicists-to-higher-energy?lite

sonhouse

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16 Mar 13

Originally posted by woodypusher
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/14/17314249-higgs-boson-confirmation-boosts-physicists-to-higher-energy?lite

Take a look at Dasa's take on the Higgs in the spiritual forum🙂

woodypusher

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16 Mar 13

Originally posted by sonhouse
Take a look at Dasa's take on the Higgs in the spiritual forum🙂

...wow

sonhouse

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19 Mar 13

Originally posted by woodypusher
...wow

BTW, if the Higgs endows everything with mass, what endows the Higgs?

KazetNagorra

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20 Mar 13

Originally posted by sonhouse
BTW, if the Higgs endows everything with mass, what endows the Higgs?

The mass of the Higgs, you mean? The Higgs itself.

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24 Mar 13

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
The mass of the Higgs, you mean? The Higgs itself.

I hear tell it's theorized there could actually be five different Higgs bosons.

sonhouse

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25 Mar 13

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
The mass of the Higgs, you mean? The Higgs itself.

A particle that gives ITSELF mass? That seems illogical. Why don't other particles give themselves mass then? And why would the higgs give itself the exact amount of mass it has? I'm trying to think about the time of the BB when particles are starting to be born. Does that mean the Higgs is the first particle to come out of the froth?

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27 Mar 13

Originally posted by sonhouse
A particle that gives ITSELF mass? That seems illogical.

Maybe that's why it's theorized by some that there are several different Higgs bosons. If there are five, say, A, B, C, D, and E, then A could confer mass to B, B to C, C to D, D to E, and....

E to A!

Tah-dah!