Particle Physics: Standard Model & Higgs Bosons

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Particle Physics: Standard Model & Higgs Bosons

Glenn wrote:

Hi Geoff,
When you get some time, let me know what you think of the supercollider the USA is building in hopes to find the Higgs Boson. If they find it, aren't they only going to find a smaller piece of matter, and what will that accomplish. Glenn

Hi Glenn,
The Higgs Bosons are a consequence of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. If matter is made of particles (it isn't as you know) then you need to explain how the space around these particles seems to be responsible for their mass. So they invent more 'particles' to fill space, give them necessary properties and think they have explained it. Not good science, shows no understanding of philosophy / metaphysics.

The WSM explains Mach's Principle and how all other matter in universe determines our mass (Milo Wolff). This is because it is the Out-Waves of all this other matter in universe that form our In-Waves. This is explained in the Cosmology page;
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Cosmology.htm
Or see Milo Wolff's website;
http://www.QuantumMatter.com

So rather than imagining space filled with Higgs Bosons, imagine space filled with waves, and for any one Wave Center 'particle' its In-Waves are flowing in through this background sea of waves, and being slightly affected by them. You can then mathematically formalise this as a background sea of Higgs Bosons affecting the mass of a particle (but it is misleading, purely mathematical).

Super colliders would probably be useful experiments if they stopped treating matter as particles! At the moment they likely do more harm than good in misleading science down the wrong path (by continually inventing more particles to explain results).

Below is a short summary from Wikipedia.
Hope this helps,
Geoff

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Higgs bosons are hypothetical elementary particles predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. These bosons are thought to play a rather fundamental role: according to the Standard Model, they are predicted to be the carrier particles of the Higgs field which is thought to permeate the universe and to give mass to other particles. As of January 2005, no experiment has definitively detected the existence of the Higgs bosons. The Higgs field is perceived the same from every direction and is mostly indistinguishable from empty space.

A special article is dedicated to the Higgs mechanism, a physical phenomenon that is responsible for the spontaneous breaking of the electroweak symmetry.

The Higgs boson, sometimes called the God particle, was first predicted in the 1960s by the British physicist Peter Higgs. The Higgs mechanism for giving mass to particles was actually first proposed in the context of solid state physics to explain how particle-like structures in metals can act as if they had an effective mass.

The Higgs boson itself has a characteristic rest-mass. As of 2004, the best estimate for this mass is 117 GeV, with a theoretical upper limit of 251 GeV. Particle accelerators have probed energies up to about 115 GeV, and have recorded a small number of events that could be interpreted as resulting from Higgs bosons, but the evidence is as yet inconclusive. It is expected among physicists that the Large Hadron Collider, currently under construction at CERN, will be able to confirm or disprove the existence of Higgs bosons.

Since the Higgs field is a scalar field, the Higgs boson has spin zero.

From: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson)