Peter Higgs's Explanation Of The Temp

In 1964 a physicist by the name of Peter Higgs took some ideas that were floating around at the time, added an insight or two of his own, and proposed that there was an energy field that permeated the entire universe. This energy field is now called the Higgs filed. The reason he proposed this field was that nobody understood why some subatomic particles had a great deal of mass, while others had little and some had none at all. The energy filed that Higgs proposed would interact with the sub-atomic particles and give them their mass. Very massive particles would interact a lot of the field while massless particles wouldn’t interact at all. To better understand the idea, we can use the analogy of water and swimmers. In our analogy the water serves the role of the Higgs field. A sardine, being supremely streamlined, interacts only slightly with the field and can move through it very easily. The sardine would then be similar to a low-mass particle. In contrast, an overweight man can only move very slowly through the water. In our analogy, the man is a massive particle made massive by interacting a lot with the water. …show more content…
So what is the Higgs boson and how are they both related? The Higgs boson is the smallest bit of the Higgs field. To understand we will return to water, if you’re immersed in it you know that water is everywhere. It’s a continuous medium and there are no holes in it. We also know that water is made of molecules – specifically H20. With the realization that water consists of countless individual molecules you can now begin to appreciate the Higgs boson. The Higgs field that gives subatomic particles their mass is made of countless individual Higgs