RE: CERN confirms new particle.
July 4, 2012 at 1:53 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2012 at 1:58 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Uhhh, it's Higgs field, not Higgs boson, that is postulated gives certain particles mass. Higgs boson merely represent a specific predicted behavior of the Higgs field under excitation. Detection of Higgs boson suggest this behavior is real, and therefore is good evidence Higgs field itself is real and not a pure math construct.
If Higgs boson itself must interact with matter to give them mass, then we must be awash in a sea of Higgs bosons all the time since we have mass all the time, and we won't Need the LHC to detect it.
If Higgs boson itself must interact with matter to give them mass, then we must be awash in a sea of Higgs bosons all the time since we have mass all the time, and we won't Need the LHC to detect it.
