Posted on 07/06/2012 5:29:33 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
... but the Higgs boson itself probably won’t be anything that modern technology ever uses. It pops back out of existence so quickly that there could not be things like beams of Higgs bosons.
I like your brand of physics, brother. It's basic truth, as far as I'm concerned.
"Soulon". I like that.
Get hold of one Higgs Boson and repeat the mantra, "LET THERE BE LIGHT"
yitbos
He may have, although probably after that story was written. Remember Azimov was a PhD scientist, Chemistry IIRC. The standard model was formalized in the mid '70s, and Higgs first paper on the particle that bears his name was written in '64. Azimov didn't pass on until April of 1992. (AIDS, he got HIV from a blood transfusion in '83 after heart surgery) So he had quite a while to become familiar with the Standard Model, which includes the Higgs. He probably wrote articles about it. I have his "Understanding Physics" in 3 separate hardcover volumes. He wrote an article "What's the Universe Made Of", for science digest published in 1980. It was about fields and particles, and he likely (I haven't read it that I recall) talked about the Higgs Boson, and/or Higgs field in that article.
Was that a backyard pina collider?
Your wave theory sounds very much like String Theory.
Yes there could be, if they are traveling fast enough, relativistic time dilation would let their lifetimes appear quite long to non moving observers, like us.
Something that heavy moving that fast is going pack quite a wallop, nuclear effects aside.
I mean as of the story’s writing of course.
Due to decay, a beam of Higgs bosons would eventually turn into something else, even if it was in their own time frame. I wonder if the Higgs mass impartation mechanism applies to Higgs bosons too? That these bosons also drag on the Higgs field?
Ha! :-)
...or there might not be any substance at all, just bundles of properties...
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