Expressing what "Higgs particle" is expressed as "snow" makes it easy to understand

ByStuart Williams

"We bring mass to matter"Higgs particle"Dr. Peter Higgs won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013. It is fairly easy to understand if you are explained with "snow" what is Higgs particle which is also called "the particle of God" and is supposed to hold the key to elucidating the structure of the universe.

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"Higgs particleWhat is it?


What is "Higgs place" in the first place?


Because they are invisible, we use metaphors for most people to explain.


It has been often compared to "candy" because it has the property of pulling a thing going through that space.


However, let's use the world of snow for this time this time.


Skiers can go on the slopes with little resistance.


OrchidPeople who wear, their walk will be late because of snow.


The walk of people wearing boots also gets slower every step.


However, it does not matter to birds flying in the sky.


Higgs field is like snow world.


Higgs is to replace countless snowflakes.


An object interacting with the Higgs field is "massIt will have become like.


As a skier glide quickly in the Higgs fieldElectronYou get a little mass.


Making protons and neutronsQuarkIt is a man who wears a bite, so to speak, it is affected more strongly by the Higgs field, so it will have a greater mass.


W Boson and Z BosonIt is a person who walks in ski resort (Higgs field) with boots, and will have thousands of times the mass.


Photon (photon)WhenGluonIt looks like a bird, it will not be affected by the Higgs field. Therefore, it has no mass.



Fifty years ago, physicists did not know why "mass-bearing substances" and "massless substances" exist.


Higgs particles were invented there, and they have been sought through all the time.


Higgs particles are easy to disappear as easily as snowflakes dancing in the sky and are easy to lose sight.


Exploration of Higgs particles.


To imagine the crystals of snow still unseen.


Finally, one piece of crystal was found among the melted snow.


You can not see Higgs particles visually.


And there is no sensor which can pick out one Higgs particle from the Higgs field and can perceive it.


For over 50 years, physicists have developed larger and more powerful accelerators.


CERNWithin the tunnel,protonIt is accelerated to the speed of light ... ....


They collide with each other and explode. Instead of annihilating the proton, a large amount of energy is released.


Einstein is "Mass is energy"In addition, physics taught that energy will not go away.


The energy generated by the proton collision changes to a small mass, and many new particles are born.


The CERN accelerator accelerates and collides charged particles in the sensor.



Continue millions of times per second, sometimes tens of millions of times.


Because witnessing something happening is extremely rare.


Higgs particles appear only once, out of billions of collisions.



Nonetheless, we can not directly sense that moment. So neither celebration nor champagne is for us.


And the Higgs particles are unstable and divide quickly.



After many trillions of collisions, it is possible that the "signs" of Higgs' particles can finally appear statistically as a distribution.


And the other day, more conflict data revealed existence that was uncertain so far.


Finally the presence of Higgs particles was confirmed.