I am a layman’s layman.
I am aware of Higgs Boson because of the speculative fiction that I
consume in its various states of existence, or rather, from books, TV, &
the movies. My layman’s layman concept
of Higgs Boson is that HB is the force that determines weight via some sort of
molecular DNA of matter. In other words it is
what determines the state and/or density of molecular structure or, further,
what makes a spoon a spoon and the water within it the water within it. That being said water must have a very light
Higgs Boson weight in that it can so easily exist in three states; solid, liquid,
& gas. These different densities
would be part of the Higgs Boson “field” and that field would determine the
atomic weight of one substance verses the atomic weight of another.
“Huh?”
Yeah. Me too. As usual, I am going to turn to cartoons
for answers; albeit this one is from Mashable & CERN. The article, “Cartoon Explains Higgs Boson
[Video]”, is by Ted Wasserman and I believe it’s worth your time if matters of the universe interest you. If not grab another bag of Cheetos and sit this one out.
Still confused?
Yeah. Me too. Don’t even get me started about time, gravity,
and/or light or any combination thereof; my confusion just grows exponentially.
So there are two schools of thought at play here. There is a plan & there is not a plan –
or, at least that is how the scientists from CERN have been testing at the
Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.
Tomorrow, on the Fourth of July, it is expected that CERN will announce
that it has discovered the elusive Higgs Boson particle; the blueprint of all
matter, if you will. Scientists will
debate this finding via ‘the plan vs. no plan’ argument for decades or until the next big
discovery is uncovered, just where did all the mass come from to begin
with?
Hmm…
I’m not too worried.
It’s all part of the plan.
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