Peter Higgs

chair covered by his academic robes, Crowe highlights not a ‘throne’ as his source of authority but rather his academic achievements. Crowe choice to depict Lang in his Vice Chancellors robe rather than the Principals robe could act as a sign of respect to the historic hierarchy of the University. Much as the British Monarch garners reverence as the formal head of state from the Prime Minister, so the role of the Chancellor – the titular head of the University – is alluded to through Crowe’s choice of featuring Lang in his Vice Chancellor robe. Herself a professor at the University of Edinburgh, Crowe has done portraits of numerous academics including the Principal of the University of Glasgow Sir Muir Russell, Professor Peter Higgs co-discoverer of the Higgs Boson particle and notably MP and current Chancellor of the University of St. Andrews Sir Menzies Campbell who is depicted – similarly to Lang’s portrait – with symbols that represent his life behind him. (Figure 2) Lang’s posture is that of a man who is comfortable with his position of power within the University. Legs crossed and leaning backward, he tilts his head as if to address a student or staff member who has entered his office. Lang’s continence, however, is stern and enduring, with little emotion shown. This is consistent with Crowe’s approach to expression in her portraiture where she, “never cared for the fleeting expression, the ‘swagger’ gesture or the momentary smile.” Considering this Crowe depicts Lang…

study the basic constituents of matter – the fundamental particles. On 4 July 2012, CERN and Collaborative companies, experiment at Large Hadron Collider announced they had each observed a new particle. This particle is called the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model. The Higgs boson, as proposed that this particle is the simplest manifestation of the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism, which is The basic equations of the unified theory correctly describe the electroweak force and its…

For example, I love the idea of physics, but I struggle in understanding and working out problems or figuring out how things work in the field or theoretically. Though I did not understand the topic very well, I chose to get educated. I bought some books on theoretical physics and began reading. Recently, I finished a book about the Higgs Boson. I did not understand it on the first read thorough completely but now I can go back and re-read it and even make my way down the hall to have a…

knowledge of arts ( arts is more near to beliefs and values and, perspectives which varies from person to person) whereas natural science is highly dependent on reason and rationality as way to produce scientific knowledge. Artistic knowledge is completely different from scientific knowledge in the sense that there is no artistic method which the artist has to follow to produce new knowledge. Whereas the natural sciences have to abide by the scientific method to be declared true which makes it…

Each year, the Nobel Prize awards people with outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physiology or medicine, and physics. This year the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics to Takaaki Kajita from Japan and Arthur B. McDonald from Canada “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.” Their discovery was announced to be a historic discovery for particle physics. After a various amount…

important for their research to be funded. The film focuses on the creation of the Large Hadron Collider, which cost $10 billion and took 19 years to create. This machine is very important in proving or disproving over 30 years of theories and ideas about how we humans and the world were created. The main theory scientists are trying to solve is if the Higgs Boson Particle actually exists. The film focused on a handful of people, theorists and experimentalist, who both had a hand in the creation…

brings attention to the different view of the arts and sciences as two interdependent subjects. The director, Dr. David Kaplan, uses the documentary to give his audience an inside view to the world’s largest experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the use of the Large Hardon Collider (LHC). The LHC is the world’s largest accelerated. The massive machine accelerates particles into each other in order to see the “God” particle, the Higgs Boson. Throughout the…

The data is sent through the brain, analyzed, and returned to what many call the “soul,” the essential spectral part of us that turns our brains into minds. In essence, the soul is what makes humans “human.” Although we do indeed receive raw data, I would argue that what we see, as humans, is interpreted by a separate part of our body and returned as more than just data. With the passage through the soul, like the Higgs Boson giving mass, the Sense Data achieves greater attributes beyond just…

This album contained many of the Wailers classics such as “I Shot the Sheriff” and “Get Up, Stand Up”. The Wailers popularity skyrocketed when Eric Clapton covered “I Shot the Sheriff”, which became the number one hit on the United States singles chart. In 1975 the Wailers released their third album, “Natty Dread” which held “Talking Blues”, “No Women No Cry” and “Revolution”. By this time two thirds of the original Wailers, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, had quit the band to pursue solo careers.…

Marley was a Jamaican legend Reggae, song writer and a musician. Bob Marley was born in February 6th 1945 in Ann parish Jamaica. At the age of seven bob Marley seems to have a knack for spooking people by successfully predicating their future by reading their palms. After some years, he spent in the ghetto of Kingston, bob Marley returned to his rural village and declared that his no more reading palms after a woman asked his to read her palms that his new destiny was to became a singer from…