Posted on 04/09/2024 3:26:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called "God particle" that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said Tuesday. The university, where Higgs was emeritus professor, said he died Monday following a short illness.
Higgs predicted the existence of a new particle, which came to be known as the Higgs boson, in 1964. He theorized that there must be a sub-atomic particle of certain dimension that would explain how other particles—and therefore all the stars and planets in the universe—acquired mass. Without something like this particle, the set of equations physicists use to describe the world, known as the standard model, would not hold together.
Higgs' work helps scientists understand one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.8 billion years ago. Without mass from the Higgs, particles could not clump together into the matter we interact with every day.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Who gets his boson?
He now gets to meet the One that “lit the fuse” of that so-called “Big Bang”.
Bonus points if you get the joke.
Well, it was first proposed by Fr. Georges Lemaître, a Catholic priest.
RIP
The one whom Einstein gave his lectures to once.
The whistler?
bosun
Interesting, I didn’t know it.
In January 1933, both Lemaitre and Einstein traveled to California for a series of seminars. After the Belgian detailed his theory, Einstein stood up, applauded, and said, "This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I have ever listened."
Fascinating. Thanks.
He has gone to meet his particle.
thank you...
Sheldon Cooper
Higgs 0; God 1
Very interesting read.
Unfortunately, on the same page as the link, there is a report of a “rare” Higgs particle decay...which would indicate physics beyond the standard model...which the discovery of the Higgs particle was holding together(standard model)...suspect much higher energies will be needed..so big, all equipment will vaporize...
The Immaculate Conception?
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