Higgs boson like particle - Discovery claimed
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All those other little particles are parts of the model that explains how electricity and magnetism arise from their aggregation into atoms, and how energy is transferred between them, giving rise to light, xrays, chemistry, biology, etc. Understanding how these elements go together has allowed us to develop technologies that use their principles, like radios, tv, electronics, lasers, radio telescopes, etc. The Higgs Boson is modelled to be the particle which imparts the property of mass to some of the other particles. Mass attracts all other mass, in an infitesimally weak way we call gravity, and is the final and fourth force we know of - the other three - the strong nuclear, the weak nuclear and the electromagnetic all being accounted for by the standard model of currently known bosons and fermions. Thus once we understand how to model and manipulate the properties of the higgs boson, then we can build technologies that can manipulate mass, hence gravity, and according to relativity, time. Now's the time to just start thinking about what we might be able to engineer matter to do considering the vast implications that something as simple as the 'discovery' of the nature of the electron has had on what we can with stuff we dig out of the ground, and what other exploratory and revelatory tools we have created, from the Hubble Telescope to pacemakers.
- *Picks pieces of exploded brain off groundukit2
- thanks miko :)georgesIII
- I will say that this is what is hoped the higgs boson turns out to be. Gravity might not be explained by it alone/at all.mikotondria3
- But fundamentally it's the dawn of a new era of technology and mastery of another basic natural force.mikotondria3
- This was incredibly uninteresting.CygnusZero4
- hahaha :)mikotondria3
- i gotz goose bumpsPonyBoy