higgs_boson - BLOGS - Blacksciencefictionsociety2024-03-29T12:33:29Zhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/higgs_bosonWeird...https://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/profiles/blogs/weird2019-06-12T10:00:00.000Z2019-06-12T10:00:00.000ZReginald L. Goodwinhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/ReginaldLGoodwin<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5saXZlc2NpZW5jZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzEwNS85NTAvb3JpZ2luYWwvc3ViYXRvbWljLXBhcnRpY2xlLXBoeXNpY3MuanBn" width="400" height="312"/></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Credit: Shutterstock</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Topics: God Particle, Higgs Boson, Large Hadron Collider, Standard Model, Theoretical Physics</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">c. 1400, "having power to control fate, from weird (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes," from Proto-Germanic *wurthiz (source also of Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"), from PIE *wert- "to turn, to wind," (source also of German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"), from root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend." For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."</span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Etymology online: <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/weird" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Weird</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We all know and love the <a href="https://www.livescience.com/21400-what-is-the-higgs-boson-god-particle-explained.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Higgs boson</a> — which to physicists' chagrin has been mistakenly tagged in the media as the "God particle" — a subatomic particle first <a href="https://www.livescience.com/27888-newfound-particle-is-higgs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spotted in the Large Hadron Collider</a> (LHC) back in 2012. That particle is a piece of a field that permeates all of space-time; it interacts with many particles, like electrons and quarks, providing those particles with mass, which is pretty cool.</span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But the Higgs that we spotted was surprisingly lightweight. According to our best estimates, it should have <a href="https://physics4thecool.blogspot.com/2019/06/weird.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">been a lot heavier</a>. This opens up an interesting question: Sure, we spotted a Higgs boson, but was that the only Higgs boson? Are there more floating around out there doing their own things?</span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But the Higgs that we spotted was surprisingly lightweight. According to our best estimates, it should have been a lot heavier. This opens up an interesting question: Sure, we spotted a Higgs boson, but was that the only Higgs boson? Are there more floating around out there doing their own things?</span></em></div><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.livescience.com/65639-giant-higgs-fate-of-universe.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Physicists Search for Monstrous Higgs Particle. It Could Seal the Fate of the Universe</a>.</span><br/><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Paul Sutter, Astrophysicist, Live Science</span></p></div>