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The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics. It is the quantum excitation of the Higgs field—a fundamental field of crucial importance to particle physics theory, first suspected to exist in the 1960s, that unlike other known fields such as the electromagnetic field, takes a non-zero constant value almost everywhere. The question of the Higgs field's existence has been the last unverified part of the Standard Model of particle physics and, according to some, "the central problem in particle physics".
The presence of this field, now believed to be confirmed, explains why some fundamental particles have mass when, based on the symmetries controlling their interactions, they should be massless. The existence of the Higgs field would also resolve several other long-standing puzzles, such as the reason for the weak force's extremely short range.
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Don Lincoln (born 1964) is an American particle physics researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame. He received a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from Rice University in 1994. In 1995, he was a codiscoverer of the top quark. He has coauthored hundreds of research papers and, more recently, was a member of the team finding evidence for the Higgs boson.
Lincoln is a public speaker and science writer and has contributed many science articles in magazines that include Analog Science Fiction and Fact in July 2009, Scientific American in November 2012 and July 2015, and The Physics Teacher at least six times. He is also the author of books describing particle physics written for the public. They are "Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos (Revised edition)" (2012) and "The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider" (2009) and "The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Things That Will Blow Your Mind" (2014). In 2013, he released a book called "Alien Universe: Extraterrestrials in our Minds and in the Cosmos," which explains how the common images of extraterrestrials came to enter Western culture and then goes on to explore what modern physics, chemistry and biology can tell us about what real intelligent alien life might be like. He been involved in a number of videos dedicated to dessiminating discoveries in particle physics and since July 7, 2011 has been a keynote speaker for a series produced by Fermilab that explores the range of issues dominating particle physics today in an accessible and sometime humorous way. Among the topics included in the series are the Higgs Boson, Anti-matter, the nature of Neutrinos, the concepts of the Big Bang, Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse and Supersymmetry.
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Actors: Frank Capra Jr. (producer), Steven Rumbelow (producer), Steven Rumbelow (director), Steven Rumbelow (actor), Steven Rumbelow (editor), Steven Rumbelow (writer), Josh Strait (actor), Graham Bell (actor), Larry Heisler (actor), Scott A. McGillivray (actor), June Mayhew (actress), Bernie Mullen (actress), Corey Livingstone (actor), Trevor Chilton (actor), Jody Willis (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Stephen Bridgewater (producer), Burt Reynolds (actor), Brian Gordon (actor), Robert Loggia (actor), Greg Krutilek (actor), Lincoln Lageson (actor), Richard Riehle (actor), Paul Bartel (actor), Bruce Dern (actor), Stephen Bridgewater (actor), Roscoe Lee Browne (actor), Charles Durning (actor), Blue Deckert (actor), Lincoln Lageson (producer), Robert Halmi Jr. (producer),
Plot: Burt Reynolds plays Logan McQueen, the hardest and most fearless cop in Florida. A series of attacks begins to happen in Miami, everyone of them meticulously carried out by a person who seems to be an extremely lethal terrorist. Buildings, schools, public places, everything is destroyed by the bombs. When trying hopelessly to find and to destroy the terrorist, Logan McQueen ends up getting closer to a convict who says that he is capable to foresee the explosions. Now, Logan will have to team up with the man and find the terrorist...
Keywords: abduction, bombing, bound-and-gagged, father-daughter-relationship, miami-florida, prison, psychic, psychopath, sequel, solitary-confinementActors: Roddy Piper (actor), David S. Cass Sr. (producer), Stephen Bridgewater (producer), Scott Garen (producer), Burt Reynolds (actor), Billy Dee Williams (actor), Buck Taylor (actor), Charles Durning (actor), Phil Hawn (actor), Chuck Hicks (actor), Gene LeBell (actor), Stephen Bridgewater (actor), Robert Loggia (actor), Lincoln Lageson (producer), Robert Halmi Jr. (producer),
Plot: Burt Reynolds plays Logan McQueen, a veteran, tough cop who likes to see justice done by his own ways. Things go bad after McQueen is framed for murder. Now he has to escape from a maximum security prison, and seek, on the deadly streets of a hot and dangerous Miami, for the man who wants him down...
Keywords: dead-boy, directed-by-star, money, police-corruptionActors: Kim Davis (miscellaneous crew), Bernard Gribble (editor), Larry Levinson (producer), Shauna O'Brien (actress), Dean Hargrove (producer), Larry Brown (composer), Ann Jillian (actress), Stephen Bridgewater (actor), Terry O'Quinn (actor), John Karlen (actor), Kenny Rogers (actor), Richard McGonagle (actor), Rusty Meyers (actor), Lincoln Lageson (miscellaneous crew), Kelly Junkerman (producer),
Plot: MacShayne is a gambler and small time con-man. After serving a short stretch in jail, he goes to Las Vegas to see his son, but when he gets there, his ex-wife is no longer where she use to live and work and left no forwarding address. Leggett, a recently retired cop, approaches him and tells him that he will help him find his son, if he does something for him. It seems that he is planning to rob a hotel casino and he needs three guys to pull it off. Now two of the guys he recruited has agreed to it but the third is uncertain, so he sets up a poker game wherein MacShayne is suppose to clean him out thus giving Leggett some leverage on him. After doing that he discovers that Leggett is duplicitous and is going stab everybody in the back. So he decides to turn the tables on him.
Keywords: casino, con-artist, gambling, heist, pokerActors: Meera Syal (actress), Ian Hogg (actor), Tony Osoba (actor), Michael McStay (actor), David Wood (actor), Gordon Warnecke (actor), Gurdial Sira (actor), David Cohen (director), Harmage Singh Kalirai (actor), David Cohen (writer), Jonathan Oliver (actor), Patricia Kerrigan (actress), Sara Mair-Thomas (actress), Gill Fickling (producer),
Genres: Romance,Actors: Jack Montgomery (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Emile Avery (actor), Raymond Burr (actor), Martin Garralaga (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Alan Hale Jr. (actor), Richard Hale (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Thomas Browne Henry (actor), Cactus Mack (actor), Ray Milland (actor), Lew Morphy (actor),
Plot: A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the horses to ride to town to report the massacre, but finds himself accused of it. He also finds himself accused of the murder of the local banker, and winds up hiding in the basement of a house where the local sheriff, who is very sick, lives with his daughter.
Keywords: 1800s, arizona, bad-reputation, banker, cactus, canned-peaches, cat, cellar, cellar-door, child-murderActors: Felix Aylmer (actor), Fedele Gentile (actor), Andreas Malandrinos (actor), Guy Middleton (actor), Reginald Purdell (actor), Gina Lollobrigida (actress), Edward Black (producer), Leslie Arliss (writer), Philip Green (composer), Leslie Arliss (director), Russell Lloyd (editor), Kieron Moore (actor), Nicholas Brodszky (composer), Victor Rietti (actor), Wilfrid Caithness (actor),
Plot: Agnes and Ellen Isit, two poor English sisters, unexpectedly inherit from their uncle a rich estate near Naples, complete with big villa and manly Italian majordomo. The latter, Salvatore, makes use of his Latin charm to seduce Agnes, who soon turns from prim spinster to passionate lover. Ellen observes the romance with amusement first before realizing how little considerate Salvatore becomes after marrying Agnes. Worse, Agnes's health starts deteriorating. Worried about her sister, she contacts Dr. Ben Dench, a family friend...
Keywords: based-on-novel, sisterActors: Ian Fleming (actor), Nora Swinburne (actress), Muriel Aked (actress), Marie Ault (actress), Anthony Holles (actor), Olive Sloane (actress), Grace Arnold (actress), Gordon Begg (actor), Mervyn Johns (actor), Frederick Burtwell (actor), Kenneth Kove (actor), Norman Walker (writer), Norman Walker (producer), Norman Walker (director), John Greenwood (composer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Sidney Gilliat (writer), Ralph Ince (director), Frank Launder (writer), Roddy Hughes (actor), Henry Kendall (actor), Bernard Miles (actor), Percy Parsons (actor), Philip Ray (actor), Frederick Burtwell (actor), Morland Graham (actor), Jerome Jackson (producer), Nancy O'Neil (actress), Joyce Kennedy (actress), Ralph Roberts (actor), Madge White (actress),
Genres: Crime, Drama,What is the Higgs field and why is it a fundamental part of our universe? Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsspacetime Quantum Field Theory is generally accepted as an accurate description of the subatomic universe. However until recently this theory had one giant hole in it. The particles it describes had no mass! The Higgs field and the Higgs mechanism were proposed long ago in order to give particles mass, but it was only in 2012 that the existence of the field was proved with the discovery of the Higgs boson by the Large Hadron Collider. In this episode of Space Time, we tell you exactly how the Higgs field can "give" something mass, which opens the door to a deeper...
Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln describes the nature of the Higgs boson. Several large experimental groups are hot on the trail of this elusive subatomic particle which is thought to explain the origins of particle mass. Note: There is an updated view of the Higgs at http://youtu.be/CwMq_xqif8k
(July 30, 2012) Professor Susskind presents an explanation of what the Higgs mechanism is, and what it means to "give mass to particles." He also explains what's at stake for the future of physics and cosmology. Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford
The Higgs Boson is awesome but it's NOT responsible for most of your mass! Thanks to audible.com for supporting this episode: http://bit.ly/ZJ5Q6z The Higgs mechanism is meant to account for the mass of everything, right? Well no, only the fundamental particles, which means that electrons derive their mass entirely from the Higgs interaction but protons and neutrons, made of quarks, do not. In fact the quark masses are so small that they only make up about 1% of the mass of the proton (and a similar fraction of the neutron). The rest of the mass comes from the energy in the gluon field. Gluons are massless, but there is so much energy in the field that by E=mc^2 there is a significant amount of mass there. This is where most of your mass comes from and the mass of virtually everything arou...
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-higgs-field-explained-don-lincoln One of the most significant scientific discoveries of the early 21st century is surely the Higgs boson, but the boson and the Higgs Field that allows for that magic particle are extremely difficult to grasp. Don Lincoln outlines an analogy that all of us can appreciate, starring a large dinner party, a raucous group of physicists, and Peter Higgs himself. Lesson by Don Lincoln, animation by Powerhouse Animation Studios Inc.
Subscribe to BBC News www.youtube.com/bbcnews Peter Higgs explains the Higgs boson on the Radio 4 Programme Life Scientific . Listen to the full interview with Peter Higgs on The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vdx7m Subscribe http://www.youtube.com/bbcnews Check out our website: http://www.bbc.com/news Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bbcworldnews Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbcworld Instagram: http://instagram.com/bbcnews
World Science Festival co-founder Brian Greene met with theoretical physicist and WSF alum Lawrence Krauss in order to field some questions sent in about the Higgs Boson and the future of physics as we know it. Original Clip Date: Dec.13 2012 The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us o...
Text at http://howfarawayisit.com/documents/ Music free version https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpH1IDQEoE8QQHdzxHzRnwNytx0me7Gag In our final segment, we cover the Higgs Boson starting with force fields and their particles. First we cover Quantum Electrodynamics - QED. We note that a disturbance in the field can create a particle – the photon. We show how the virtual photon mediates the electromagnetic force with virtual photons that are actually not particles. We also introduce coupling constants and Feynman Diagrams. We then extend this ‘force particle from a force field’ concept to include a matter particle from a matter field. In electromagnetic quantum field theory, this is the electron. Next we cover Quantum Chromodynamics – QCD. We show how the electromagnetic force ...
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains the larger implications of the God Particle's discovery. For more CNN videos, check out our YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/cnn Or visit our site at http://www.cnn.com/
Paranoia rips through my head
Wonder what it’s like to be dead
Intense hatred all about
Left alone to figure it out
Truth and justice just a joke
Entire system just a hoax
Weakening with insecurity
No such thing as racial purity
Life and death become a game
Live or die it’s all the same
Lost my sense of morality
Got no place in reality
Got no point of reference
Got no religious preference
Must have really lost my mind
Time to leave this world behind
Heard too many lies
Afraid to close my eyes
Just don’t know what’s real
What’s the fucking deal?
Total darkness without a clue
Not much choice what can I do
Used to believe now I don’t
Make a difference you know I won’t
Product of my environment
Won’t live to see retirement
Fight while I’m still young and bold
Probably die before I’m old
With my back against the wall
What to do can’t take a fall
The heaviness is pressing down
Trying to force me to the ground
Can’t give up must somehow win
Can’t go through this hell again
Have to give it one more try
One more time before I die
Heard too many lies
Afraid to close my eyes
Just don’t know what’s real
What’s the fucking deal?
I can’t believe what I see
Only my thoughts are free