Jul
3rd
2022
July 4th · 9:25pm Jul 3rd, 2022
Is everyone ready for the big celebration tomorrow? Ten years since the Higgs boson was discovered. I hear there will be fireworks and all sorts happening in the US.
It’s time I wrote a post: Zipp explains the physics of the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. I’ve had Izzy, Sunny, and Pipp talk particle physics. We need to hear more from Zipp. However, this will have to wait for next week, as I have a livestream to sort out for tomorrow. If you want to hear about Higgs physics from some of the particle physicists who led the discovery and subsequent research, join us tomorrow from 7pm (Oxford), 2pm (New York), 11am (San Francisco), 2am (Singapore).
Ten years ago?! Wow, time flies.
Feels like way less than that.
I still want to know if it’s theoretically possible to reflect, refract, bend, or otherwise deflect the Higgs field to create a volume without it.
I intend to conduct an experiment on increasing the mass of an object.
The object is me, and barbecued ribs will be involved.
We could have discovered the The Higgs a decade earlier if we would have built the Supoerconducting Supercollider.
It's not every day I read a blog post first paragraph this good.