Is the Higgs Boson (the god particle) a discovery to be lamented ? / Has CERN created a quantum black hole ? / Quantum Physics

I prepared this summary to introduce you to the topic:

The Higgs boson is the fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons and quarks. A particle’s mass determines how much it resists changing its speed or position when it encounters a force.

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In the Higgs boson’s case, the field came first. The Higgs field was proposed in 1964 as a new kind of field that fills the entire Universe
and gives mass to all elementary particles. The Higgs boson is a wave in that field. Its discovery confirms the existence of the Higgs field.

The Higgs boson underpins the whole Standard Model like a jigsaw piece, spurring on our curiosity and creating a more accurate picture of the universe around us. Since the beginning of humanity, curiosity has fuelled the advancement of science.

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The key distinguishing feature of Higgs’s contribution was that, as an afterthought, he predicted the existence of a new massive particle left over from the process he had worked out in the Highlands. This particle would later bear his name: the Higgs boson.

The Higgs boson is the only fundamental particle known to be scalar, meaning it has no quantum spin. This fact answers questions about our universe, but it also raises new ones.

The Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism introduced a new quantum field that today we call the Higgs field, whose quantum manifestation is the Higgs boson. Only particles that interact with the Higgs field acquire mass. “It is exactly this mechanism,” Cerutti adds, “that creates all the complexity of the Standard Model.”

There was not yet any direct evidence that the Higgs field existed, but even without direct proof, the accuracy of its predictions led scientists to believe the theory might be true.

What did Stephen Hawking say about Higgs boson?

Quote/What Hawking said in 2013 when the discovery of the Higgs boson was confirmed: “physics would be far more interesting if [the Higgs boson] had not been found”.

When Stephen Hawking and I visited the Large Hadron Collider, he hoped for an unexpected physics breakthrough. His dreams may not be impossible. “I hope you’ll make black holes,” Stephen said with a broad smile.

The elusive ‘God particle’ discovered by scientists in 2012 has the potential to destroy the universe, famed British physicist Stephen Hawking has warned. According to Hawking, at very high energy levels the Higgs boson, which gives shape and size to everything that exists, could become unstable. This, he said, could cause a “catastrophic vacuum decay” that would lead space and time to collapse.

Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He was a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

7 Apr 2024

In this shocking video, a CERN scientist claims they have opened a portal to another dimension. Watch now for the mind-blowing details!

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Higgs boson & the sparticle & dark matter. ESL activity: listening and writing

Higgs Boson theory explained in a simply way | ELT & ESL activities

What is CERN hadron collider? Is something EVIL happening at CERN ? / Big Cosmos Secrets

6 Jul 2022

The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator is up and running again in Switzerland after a three-year refurbishment. And it is off to a record-breaking start as scientists try to unlock the secrets surrounding the building blocks of the universe. Physicists hope it will reveal the secrets of “dark matter” that makes up 85 percent of our universe, but does not absorb, reflect or emit light.

8 Apr 2024

Physicists worldwide brimmed with anticipation as they witnessed the long-awaited activation of the most advanced high-energy particle collider at CERN. After patiently waiting for decades, they finally beheld this remarkable invention, poised to transform our comprehension of the universe. Join us as we delve into the mysterious events unfolding within the hallowed halls of CERN, where science and the unknown collide. What secrets lie hidden in the subatomic depths? Brian Cox unravels the enigma, revealing a tale that defies explanation.

13 Jan 2024

CERN Scientists Break Silence On Terrifying New Discovery That Changes Everything

CERN has made headlines yet again. The renowned laboratory for particle physics has announced a rather unprecedented discovery made by their Large Hadron Collider that may likely cause a shift in our understanding of the universe. Scientists have reported that these anomalous readings could signal the existence of extraterrestrial life in a parallel universe. In This video, we will be discussing the just-announced CERN discovery that changes everything.

In a recent experiment with the Large Hadron Collider, CERN scientists noticed something strange with a particular kind of quark. Quarks are the building blocks of all matter and are of different types. Physicists call the different types ‘flavours’.

Some of these so-called flavours of quarks were extremely unstable and decayed rapidly. The subject of this particular anomaly was the beauty quark, which has an average lifespan of one and a half trillionths of a second. It turned out that the quark’s decay pattern was radically different from what scientists predicted based on the standard model.

Based on their predictions, when a beauty quark decays, it should be influenced by the weak force and transform into what is called leptons, which is a set of lighter particles, either an electron or a muon, with the standard model predicting a 50-50 chance for both particles.

But what the data from the Large Hadron Collider was showing was relatively different. The data showed that these quarks decay into muons only seventy percent as often as they decayed into electrons.

6 Apr 2024

CERN is turning the Large Hadron Collider back on April 8th, the same day as a Total Solar Eclipse. Are the rumours regarding this event simply a conspiracy theory? The information in this video should help answer questions like: Is CERN trying to open a portal to the spiritual world or to hell? What is the large hadron collider? Should we be worried about the Higgs Boson (or god particle)? Let’s dive in and find out.

12 Aug 2020

Let’s roll back a few days. This is CERN, the Nuclear Research laboratory on the border of France and Switzerland. It features the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC. What does it do? It accelerates and collides particles at 99.99% of the speed of light. And maybe, it could produce the very first lab-grown black hole. How big would that black hole be? What precautions would you need to take not to get sucked in it? And how long would it take it to destroy the entire planet?

An expanding universe | where is the universe expanding into ? | ELT & ESL tasks

 

The universe began in a Big Bang nearly fourteen billion years ago, and has been expanding ever since. But how does the universe expand and what is it expanding into? Sajan Saini explains the existing theories around the Big Bang and what, if anything, lies beyond our universe.

1-When astronomer Edwin Hubble completed his survey of the night sky, what strange discovery did he make?

a-In the northern hemisphere, all distant galaxies are receding

b-All distant stars are moving towards the Earth

c-All distant galaxies are receding from the Earth

d-All distant galaxies are moving towards the Earth

2-What do Hubble’s observations tell us about the universe?

a-The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, over time

b-The universe is expanding unto itself

c-The Cosmic Microwave Background is a relic from the early universe

d-The universe is cooling, over time

3-Which of the following is predicted by eternal inflation?

a-The universe is part of a greater multiverse in which there are parallel universes identical to our own

b-The universe is part of a greater multiverse in which bubble universes inflate over time

c-The universe is part of a greater multiverse in which bubble universes randomly form and merge

d-The universe is part of a greater multiverse in which bubble universes are isolated by a rapidly inflating reality

4-Which of the following is predicted by brane cosmology?

a-Brane universes may interact with one another by sharing certain fundamental forces, such as gravity

b-Brane universes may interact with one another by means of cosmic strings

c-Brane universes are part of a greater hyperspace in which branes randomly form and merge

d-Brane universes are formed within the subatomic realm of particle physics

5-If a so-called “echo” interference effect is observed in the Cosmic Microwave Background, this would strongly support which speculative theory?

a-The Big Bang

b-Cosmic inflation

c-Eternal inflation

d-Brane cosmology

6-Einstein’s equations of General Relativity reveal that within galaxies the force of gravity locally overpowers cosmic expansion, while in the intergalactic void expansion reigns supreme. Recent measurements similar to Hubble’s original observations have revealed the expansion of the universe is accelerating: a mysterious dark energy has been attributed to increasing the rate of expansion, over time. What might this mean for the final fate of galaxies, as the universe continues to expand?

7-Eternal inflation suggests a multiverse wherein our particular universe is subject to the anthropic principle: the fundamental physical constants of our universe necessarily attained values that inevitably led to the formation galaxies, stars and planets, and life. Critics of eternal inflation argue the principle represents a non-scientific truism for a fine-tuned universe, tantamount to intelligent design; supporters argue we can still ascertain something about an ensemble of potential universes beyond our own. What do you think? Might the anthropic principle ultimately limit our ability to model the birth of our universe?

8-Whereas one class of speculative cosmology theories, such as eternal inflation, may be tested by fine astronomy measurements of heavenly phenomena such as the Cosmic Microwave Background, theories such as brane cosmology are tested by both astronomy and high energy physics experiments. Given the origins of brane cosmology, does the telescope or the particle accelerator seem the more instrumental tool to test theoretical predictions? Why?

 

Task 2.  Research, Writing & Speaking.

Additional Resources for you to Explore

A sound scientific theory foretells new experimental results, and Hubble’s observation of galactic recession led to a Big Bang theory that predicted the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and cosmic abundance of hydrogen and helium. This birthed the discipline of cosmology—the study of the life, evolution, and death of the universe.

This TED-Ed video by T. Whyntie briefly describes the early universe, and this online article elaborates on NASA’s cosmic timeline for the era. NASA’s Universe 101 webpage gives a concise introduction to the CMB.

Hubble’s landmark 1929 article infers the relative motion of faraway galaxies by measuring their Doppler Effect: see this Physics Classroom lesson to learn about Doppler redshift.

Ethan Siegel’s science blog explains how the cosmic expansion observed by Hubble can’t happen everywhere in the universe, thanks to the influence of gravity within or between nearby galaxies. This New Scientist article describes how Einstein’s equations of General Relativity (GR) interpret gravity as a literal curvature in spacetime (here’s twelve key insights).

This article and podcast episode by astrophysicist Paul Sutter consider how spacetime curvature relates to the universe having no edge. The TED-Ed video by R. Hlozek examines how the curvature of the universe determines its ultimate fate. The online multimedia textbook Earth and Space Science by astronomy educator Jeffrey Bennett gives an instructive introduction to the observable universe, and our place in it.

Despite the pervasive success of the Big Bang theory, fundamental questions remain unanswered on the formation of galaxies and temperature uniformity in
the observable universe. The cosmic inflation paradigm offers an elegant resolution with a profound hypothesis that straddles quantum physics and GR—but it comes at a price, as most of its models imply an eternally inflating multiverse. This Nautilus article by Amanda Gefter deftly reviews how eternal inflation has spurred intense debate about cosmic inflation itself, even as most experts are still in consensus on its likelihood. If you’re feeling adventurous, tackle the introduction to a review paper on eternal inflation by Alan Guth, creator of inflationary theory. And this article at the Early Universe blog predicts characteristics in the CMB for the extreme unlikely scenario of a collision between adjacent bubble universes.

While the inflation paradigm addresses questions on the galactic scale, cosmology’s study of the early hot universe aligns with the subatomic focus of particle physics. Brane cosmology reconciles particle string theories and proposes a multiverse model with potentially interacting brane universes. These interactions may be tested for by turning away from telescopes that look out to the stars, in favor of particle accelerators that focus in on the subatomic realm. That said, this TED-Ed video on detecting dark matter by R. Landua reveals some of the incredible technical challenges in high energy accelerator experiments.

Where might it all lead? The TED-Ed video by C. Anderson briefly explores possible sizes for the multiverse, and two Scientific American articles (by Ellis,
Vilenkin & Tegmark) underscore the testable boundaries of these interpretations.

Getting back to our universe: in the 1990s, a more sophisticated version of Hubble’s experiment revealed the rate of cosmic expansion isn’t constant with time. A mysterious “dark energy,” is accelerating the expansion of the universe. The TED-Ed video by J. Gillies reviews attempts to identify dark matter and dark energy. Challenge yourselves further with a Resonance review article by Das Gupta that examines how the ad hoc inclusion of a cosmological constant inadvertently represents the effects of dark energy.

Einstein ruefully called the cosmological constant his “greatest blunder.” Today, it models our accelerating universe, and may help interpret the universe’s relation to what may exist beyond…

Sajan Saini is a former materials scientist and science writer. He directs the educational curriculum for AIM Photonics Academy at MIT. He has written for Coda Quarterly, MIT Ask an Engineer, and Harper’s Magazine. Learn about Sajan here.

Raman Sundrum is a professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research ranges from subatomic particle physics to cosmology; his best-known work addresses the theory and experimental repercussions of higher-dimensional spacetime. Learn about Raman here.

Jeffrey Bennett is an astrophysicist and former NASA scientist. He is lead author of textbooks in astronomy, astrobiology, math & statistics, books for the general public, and six children’s books that have been read from the International Space Station. Learn about Jeffrey here.

Laura Blecha is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Florida. Her research group uses computer simulations to study supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies. Learn about Laura here.

Task 3.  Discussion, Writing & Speaking.

Testing exotic theories for a multiverse require costly space telescopes and particle accelerators. Can these cosmic inquiries help illuminate more pressing real-world challenges, such as infectious disease, climate change, etc? How so?

comment 1:

The different theories that have been designed throughout history have served to predict or explain some phenomena that directly or indirectly have served for others. So it is likely that such theories can help explain the phenomena that occur on earth.

comment 2:    In my opinion in some areas if you could know thanks to these instruments such as climate change, it would help us to know lonely storms, in other areas such as astrology would allow us to know about the universe, maybe in the future you will find a planet that attach more to us, maybe you will discover different things, in the aspect of diseases maybe if these are because of the air, the sun, because if it is not, it may not be useful.

In conclusion if the devices to investigate the universe serve us, but only in different aspects it is not all, and in some cases they take years, until finally it is verified

 

comment 3:   I think that the real live is not different to the comics because if some human go to Mars and in Mars exist live we would be like superhero because the gravity is few we have more force that the live in Mars, and if we think that we can think in all, like the multiverse

 

 

Higgs Boson theory explained in a simply way | ELT & ESL activities

 

In 2012, scientists at CERN discovered evidence of the Higgs boson. The what? The Higgs boson is one of two types of fundamental particles and is a particular game-changer in the field of particle physics, proving how particles gain mass. Using the Socratic method, CERN scientists Dave Barney and Steve Goldfarb explain the exciting implications of the Higgs boson.

Task 1.  Comprehension.  Watch the video and answer the questions:

1- Which of the following is an elementary particle?

a-Proton

b-Electron

c-Neutron

d-Pion

2- Where is the Higgs field located?

a-In the middle of high energy collisions in the LHC

b-It doesn’t exist any more; it was only around for a fraction of a second after the Big Bang

c-It is all around us, pervading the whole Universe

3- What is the Higgs boson?

a-An excitation of the Higgs field, proving the field exists

b-The particle that gives mass to all other particles

c-A cherry in a milkshake

d-The carrier of the strong force

4- Has the Standard Model Higgs boson been discovered?

a-Yes

b-Yes, but we lost it somewhere

c-Maybe, but we need more data to know for sure

d-No

5- What are bosons?

a-Particles that carry forces

b-Particles that form all known matter

c-Particles that have no mass

d-Particles found only in ice cream

6- If the Higgs field didn’t exist, what would be the consequence for our Universe?

a-Nothing would be any different to what it is today

b-Stars would quickly burn-out, not allowing enough time for life to evolve

c-There would not be any “substance” to the Universe: no planets, no stars, no milkshakes…

7- Who, other than Peter Higgs, developed the concept of what is commonly called the “Higgs field”?

8- What would be the consequence of the elementary particles having different masses from the ones that they actually have? As examples, consider the electron and the W bosons….

9- If the thing that ATLAS and CMS have discovered turns out not to be the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model, what could be the consequences? What might it be signs of?

 

Task 2.  Research, Writing & Speaking.

Additional Resources for you to Explore

A selection of resources for understanding a little more about the discovery of the Higgs boson and what it means:

The web sites of ATLAS, CMS and CERN all have an extensive set of materials concerning the discovery, the technology used, and the next steps
The IPPOG collection of multi-lingual education & outreach materials includes, for example, a movie showing how the Universe would be different if particle masses were different.

Two papers were published in Physics Letters B, by ATLAS and CMS, on the observation of a new boson at a mass of about 125 GeV, and a more accessible version was published in Science Magazine at the end of 2012

Some of the history around the development of the Higgs field can be found in a public seminar at CERN by Prof. Frank Close and in his book “The Infinity Puzzle”
An animation from PhD Comics: “The Higgs Boson Explained,” by Jorge Cham
A video from Sixty Symbols: “Talking About The Higgs Boson”
An animated video: “The ATLAS Boogie” humorously describes the process of finding the Higgs using music

A New York Times selection of books about the Higgs Boson:
o “Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science,” by Ian Sample (Basic Books)
o “Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the ‘God Particle,’ ” by Jim Baggott (Oxford University Press)
o “Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space,” by Lisa Randall (Bodley Head)
o “The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World,” by Sean Carroll (Dutton)
o “The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?” by Leon Lederman with Dick Teresi (Delta)
o “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality,” by Brian Greene (Vintage)

Visit the TED-Ed Blog for more information about the collaboration between TED-Ed and CERN.

Task 3.  Discussion, Writing & Speaking.

1- Why do you think human beings feel compelled to do basic research?

What would happen if we stopped?

comment 1: I think it is our greatest ability and our only way to survive.

comment 2:   I agree, I believe our ability to research and understand our surroundings has led to our survival and continuation as a species. Also, humans have a certain need, curiosity, and drive to find the origin if the universe and where we come from. I don’t believe that our ability to do this will stop, maybe if a conclusion is reached on questions of the universe, it may stop.

comment 3:  (Sometimes) to learn means seeing beyond of the things that you can merely look. It can involve going deeper and and deeper in the stuff that is already “done” and is “nonsense” to keep looking at. If we stopped from “poking around” the “obvious stuff” we would be closing a lot of doors in the understanding of life, in the understanding of the universe.

2- Why is the discovery of the Higgs boson important?

In fact, why is any “basic research” important at all? Shouldn’t scientists concentrate on studies with direct everyday uses and consequences?

comment 1:

If we can discover the Higgs boson, the most important atom of them all, who knows what we could learn or use from it. the possibilities would be endless.

comment 2:   It is important because now scientists know which particles carries forces and is a clue to how the universe was created, it gives us a clue to see which theories may be correct

 

comment 3:   If the Higgs is actually proven to be present, new pathways of exploration and understanding will now be available for further research. New ways to go about calculating and explaining our universe will be open with the presence of the Higgs particle.

 

 

What is dark matter ? | ELT & ESL activities

 

The Greeks had a simple and elegant formula for the universe: just earth, fire, wind, and water. Turns out there’s more to it than that — a lot more. Visible matter (and that goes beyond the four Greek elements) comprises only 4% of the universe. CERN scientist James Gillies tells us what accounts for the remaining 96% (dark matter and dark energy) and how we might go about detecting it.

Task 1.  Comprehension.  Watch the video and answer these questions:

1-Which was not one of the four elements the ancient Greeks believed comprised the world?

a-Earth

b-Air

c-Sprit

d-Water

e-Fire

2-When did scientists first measure the motion of groups of moving galaxies?

a-1900’s

b-1930’s

c-1960’s

d-1990’s

3-The universe’s expansion seems to be ________.

a-Slowing down

b-Accelerating

c-Changing directions

d-Catalyzing the formation of other habitable planets

4-Today’s best measurements estimate that about ___% of the universe is dark matter.

a-13

b-27

c-42

d-86

5- Give possible explanations for why the universe is expanding.

 

Task 2.  Research, Writing and Speaking.

Additional Resources for you to Explore

Leucippus was one of the earliest Greeks to develop the theory of atomism — the idea that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms — which was elaborated in greater detail by his pupil and successor, Democritus.
This interactive periodic table includes a unique video for each element.
The Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, is radiation that fills the universe and can be seen in every direction.

In astronomy, the geocentric model (also known as geocentrism, or the Ptolemaic system), is a description of the cosmos where Earth is at the orbital center of all celestial bodies. This model served as the predominant cosmological system in many ancient civilizations such as ancient Greece. As such, they assumed that the Sun, Moon, stars, and naked eye planets circled Earth, including the noteworthy systems of Aristotle (see Aristotelian physics) and Ptolemy.

Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can’t be directly measured, but their influence is immense.

Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is “Big History”: an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline.

Supersymmetry is one of the most popular of the speculative ideas that theorists have proposed to understand the puzzle known as the hierarchy problem. It has many wonderful features, ranging from mathematical beauty to its potential ability to explain other puzzles in particle physics, such as the nature of dark matter.

Task 3.  Discussion, Writing & Speaking.

Why do you think this is the best time (since time began) to be alive?

comment 1:   the cutting edge in time travel info is with projectcamelot they recently conducted a round table of experts from Preston Nichols head of the top secret Montauk project to David Wilcock a scientific minded mystic who’s book the source field investigations made perfect sense to me and marked him as probably the greatest scientific philosopher of our generation. Time is not what most people think it is. It is a form of energy and it exists in such a way that the present past and eternal now all exist simultaneously in a world of probability and multiple dimensions we are just now starting to understand and many of the great minds of science are being left behind, shame not everyone can get it.

comment 2:   Let me answer why we tend to believe that. Just like generations in our past, we have nothing to compare our time to, except from what others already have experienced. So, we are comparing our present with our past. Society has evolved. We’ve always been trying (although failing sometimes) to improve the future, which is why the future’s always improved. If we compare our current time to our past, we are comparing something more evolved to something less. However, some might think that our time period has been the worst, because of decisions we made in the past. Some people believe we need a revolution, the others tend to think we need to keep evolving. No matter what you believe about the past or the present, I think we could all agree that the future is and always have been what’s the most exciting. Which leads me to my real answer, which is… No, actually I don’t believe this is the best time to be alive, I believe in the future instead. And right now, our future is in our grasp.

comment 3:   I think that it’s the best time to be alive because we’ve reached our peak of scientific and philosophical knowledge. With the right people doing the right things, we could use this momentum to improve the state of our own life lives and improve the states of other people’s lives. More knowledge is always better for our survival, innovation and understanding of the universe.

comment 4: a round table of experts from Preston Nichols head of the top secret Montauk project to David Wilcock a scientific minded mystic who’s book the source field investigations made perfect sense to me and marked him as probably the greatest scientific philosopher of our generation. Time is not what most people think it is. It is a form of energy and it exists in such a way that the present past and eternal now all exist simultaneously in a world of probability and multiple dimensions we are just now starting to understand and many of the great minds of science are being left behind

comment 5: I think the reasons that this is the best time to live in are that people in the past has already solved a lot of essential living problems like food, medication, safety allowing some of us today to be able to learn under a more carefree environment and focus on what we are doing. Nowadays, the idea of equality is much more promoted allowing different races, genders etc to pursue their passion in a judge free environment.
Internet has connected a majority of us around the world, allowing the exchange of ideas easily. Internet also brought massive accessible information so we can move forward faster based on other people’s findings.
More people have the chance to attend schools. School teaches English around the world making commutation easier between different continents.
Problems caused by humans are starting to reveal but not severe enough to destroy us at the moment.

Origin of the Universe in images (Hubble telescope). Look !

A lecture by Brian Cox on how the universe was created.  Theories of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.  The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator at CERN.

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There are over 10,000 points of lights which are actually galaxies not stars.  Each of these galaxies have 100,ooo million stars like our Sun.  The most distant object in the image is 13 point two thousand million light years away!  Light travels at 300,000 kilometres per second, 186,000 miles a second.  At this speed it has taken over 13 billion years to travel from the most distant object in this image to Earth, to the Hubble telescope.  The Earth is only 5 billion years old so most of those galaxies started their journey much before there was an Earth…

 

 

La máquina de Dios es el Gran Colisionador de Hadrones?

Ingeniero argentino, investigador principal del CONICET y agregado científico del Centro Europeo de Investigación Nuclear (CERN), donde participó del desarrollo del Gran Colisionador de Hadrones (LHC), denominado “La Máquina de Dios”, acelerador y detector de partículas al mismo tiempo. Dirige el Laboratorio de Instrumentación de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata.

Higgs boson & the sparticle & dark matter. ESL activity: listening and writing

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Glossary

Higgs boson: a subatomic particle whose existence is predicted by the theory which unified the weak and electromagnetic interactions.

The Large Hadron Collider is the highest-energy particle collider ever made and is considered as “one of the great engineering milestones of mankind”.

Cern physicists have succeeded for the first time in producing a beam of antihydrogen atoms.

CERN: is a European research organization whose purpose is to operate the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.  Route de Meyrin 385, 1217 Meyrin, Switzerland.

ESL activity.  Listen to the video and take notes.

Writing.  Write a summary of what you learnt in the video.

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Sparticle:  In particlephysics, a superpartner (also sparticle) is a hypothetical elementary particle. Supersymmetry is one of the synergistic theories in current high-energy physics that predicts the existence of these “shadow” particles.  The word superpartner is a portmanteau of supersymmetry and partner.  The word sparticle is a portmanteau of supersymmetry and particle.

We have found the Higgs boson, so then the next question is what’s next? Well,  the Large Hadron Collider, this machine that is 27 miles in circumference costing $10 billion dollars is big enough to create the next generation of particles so the Higgs boson expose and in some sense is the last  hurra for the old physics, and the old physics and what is called the standard model which gives us quarks the electrons.  The new theory is gonna take us into dark matter.

Now, we know dark matter exists, dark matter is invisible so if I held it in my hand, you wouldn’t see it.  In fact, it would go right through my fingers, go right through the rock underneath my feet and go all the way to China.  It would reverse direction and come back from China all the way here to New York City and go back and forth. So, dark matter has gravitational attraction but it is invisible and we are clueless as to what dark matter really is.  The leading candidate for dark matter today is called the sparticle.   The sparticle is the next active of the string.  Now, look around you, everything aroun you, is nothing but the lowest vibration  of a vibrating string, the lowest octave, in some sense.  But a string, of course, has higher octaves, higher notes.  We think that dark matter could, in fact, be nothing but a higer vibration of the string.  So we think that 23 percent of the universe, which is the dark matter contribution to the universe, comes from a higher octave of the string.