'God particle' Higgs Boson Confirmed

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The release on Wednesday of dramatic new data pointing to the existence of the Higgs boson "God particle" sent a special flutter of pride, mixed with frustration, through India's scientific community.

The "Higgs" of Higgs boson is well known to refer to Peter Higgs, the British researcher who in 1964 laid much of the conceptual groundwork for the presence of the elusive particle.
What is largely unknown, at least to non-specialists, is that the term "boson" owes its name to the pioneering work of the late Indian physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose.

Born during British colonial rule in 1894 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bose was a lecturer at both the universities of Calcutta and Dhaka.

In 1924, he sent a paper to Albert Einstein describing a statistical model that eventually led to the discovery of what became known as the Bose-Einstein condensate phenomenon.

The paper laid the basis for describing the two fundamental classes of sub-atomic particles -- bosons, named after Bose, and fermions, after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.

While several Nobel prizes have been awarded research related to the concepts of the boson, Bose himself was never honoured by the Nobel academy.

Archan Majumdar, an astrophysicist at the eponymous Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Kolkata, said Bose's name would be better known if his discoveries hadn't been made during the colonial era.

"If India had been an independent nation he could have got more recognition than he has," Majumdar said.

"Also, if he had the Nobel prize which he deserved more than many others he would have been more known, but unfortunately it didn't happen."

In 1954 Bose awarded the Padma Vibhushan -- India's second highest civilian honour. He died in 1974.

Source: For India, 'God particle' is as much boson as Higgs - Hindustan Times

Q?
Why there is mass in every materiel ?
How materiel from in bigbang when nothing exists ?

and may more discovery like e=mc2 (which gives us proper use of energy except nuclear bomb )

 

[Armand2REP]

This is a great day for European physics.

 

[H.A.]

A nice educative video of Higgs Boson....

[video=vimeo;41038445]http://vimeo.com/41038445[/video]

 

[H.A.]

Ever since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) went online in 2008, physicists have been conducting experiments, hoping to finally prove or disprove the existence of The God Particle, otherwise known as the Higgs Boson. CERN (which operates the LHC) gives this basic introduction to the theorized particle:

A major breakthrough in particle physics came in the 1970s when physicists realized that there are very close ties between two of the four fundamental forces Рnamely, the weak force and the electromagnetic force. The two forces can be described within the same theory, which forms the basis of the Standard Model. This 'unification' implies that electricity, magnetism, light and some types of radioactivity are all manifestations of a single underlying force called, unsurprisingly, the electroweak force. But in order for this unification to work mathematically, it requires that the force-carrying particles have no mass. We know from experiments that this is not true, so physicists Peter Higgs, Robert Brout and Fran̤ois Englert came up with a solution to solve this conundrum.

They suggested that all particles had no mass just after the Big Bang. As the Universe cooled and the temperature fell below a critical value, an invisible force field called the 'Higgs field' was formed together with the associated 'Higgs boson'. The field prevails throughout the cosmos: any particles that interact with it are given a mass via the Higgs boson. The more they interact, the heavier they become, whereas particles that never interact are left with no mass at all.

That quick statement sets the stage for watching the video above. Here we have Daniel Whiteson, a physics professor at UC Irvine, giving us a fuller explanation of the Higgs Boson, mercifully using animation to demystify the theory and the LHC experiments that may confirm it sooner or later.

The Higgs Boson, AKA the God Particle, Explained with Animation | Open Culture

 

[KS]

This is a great day for European physics.....

...and also for anyone looking towards the mysteries of the universe.

 

[LalTopi]

This is a great day for European physics.

Not Indian physics? Really I am surprised at you Armand. The kind of thing an Englishman would say

 

[Armand2REP]

Not Indian physics? Really I am surprised at you Armand. The kind of thing an Englishman would say

CERN is a European nuclear research programme with the mission of taking physics to the next level. There is nothing Indian about it. The LHC is located on the French-Suisse border. The results of testing for general consumption will be released, but any findings that give Europe the edge in research will be closely guarded secrets. Tens of billions were spent not just to give away.

 

[Cliff@sea]

Discovery of a new Particle confirmed . . .

That it is Higgs Boson is not . . .

why such hurry to announce an unconfirmed News

 

[amitkriit]

CERN is a European nuclear research programme with the mission of taking physics to the next level. There is nothing Indian about it. The LHC is located on the French-Suisse border. The results of testing for general consumption will be released, but any findings that give Europe the edge in research will be closely guarded secrets. Tens of billions were spent not just to give away.

Theoretical Physics needs support from everybody and every nation. Scientific Knowledge was never kept hidden, and those civilizations who tried to do it lost it. There is a great difference between Theoretical Physics and Engineering. It takes on an average around 50 years to commercialize any scientific discovery.

Just for your information:

The main Indian hardware contribution is superconducting sextupole and decapole spool pieces amounting to half of the total LHC requirement for such corrector magnet equipment. In addition, India will supply LHC magnet support jacks and quench heater power supplies.

Circuit breakers are being supplied by Russia, but India remains responsible for the necessary electronics. In addition, India is carrying out several programming and documentation projects.
Source

Observer States and Organizations: currently involved in CERN programmes are: the European Commission, India, Japan, the Russian Federation, Turkey, UNESCO and the USA.

 

[Armand2REP]

Has there ever been state level research conducted that wasn't for economic or national gain? Sorry, but we aren't that benevolent. It is a sad reality of the universe.

 

[A chauhan]

Leave it! It's a great achievement for all of us. Btw 'Boson' is already signifying Indian contribution.

 

[A chauhan]

Leave it! It's a great achievement for all of us. Btw 'Boson' is already signifying Indian contribution.

 

[Armand2REP]

What? China gets to boast about building something that has no relevance to mankind but France and Europe discover the next step in Physics and has to share credit with the world. That is hardly fair.

 

[amitkriit]

What? China gets to boast about building something that has no relevance to mankind but France and Europe discover the next step in Physics and has to share credit with the world. That is hardly fair.

Credit will be given where it is due. But Theoretical science needs to be put in public domain, the knowledge cannot be signed, sealed and put in a vault. I repeat Theoretical Science is not Engineering/Technology, it is an entirely different ball-game. In science things aren't invented, they are discovered, they already existed since the time of creation of this universe.

There were several reasons behind the success of our race and demise of Neanderthals. One reason being Our race was social in nature, so any discovery, any new knowledge gained by an individual quickly spread through the existing population, for example discovery of fire, spears, wheel etc. Neanderthals were incapable of doing so because they were solitary and had little/no communication skills.

 

[Cliff@sea]

Higgs Boson Explained :

 

[A chauhan]

'God particle' could spell doom for the universe

Press Trust of India | New York February 25, 2013 Last Updated at 15:10 IST

A potential Higgs Boson particle discovered last year could spell doom for our universe, researchers claim.The mass of the so called 'God particle', uncovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, is a key ingredient in a calculation that signals the future of space and time."This calculation tells you that many tens of billions of years from now there will be a catastrophe," Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia said."It may be the universe we live in is inherently unstable, and at some point billions of years from now it's all going to get wiped out," added Lykken, a collaborator on one of the LHC's experiments.The sub-atomic particle is a manifestation of an energy field pervading the universe called the Higgs field, which is thought to explain why particles have mass, 'LiveScience' reported.Physicists at the LHC announced in July 2012 that they had discovered a new particle whose properties strongly suggest it is the Higgs Boson.To confirm the particle's identity for sure, more data are needed. But many scientists say they're betting it is the Higgs.


"This discovery to me was personally astounding," said I Joseph Kroll, a University of Pennsylvania physicist."To me, the Higgs was sort of, it might be there, it might not. The fact that it's there is really a tremendous accomplishment," Kroll said. And finding the Higgs, if it's truly been found, not only confirms the theory about how particles get mass, but it allows scientists to make new calculations that were not possible before the particle's properties were known.If that particle really is the Higgs, its mass turns out to be just about what's needed to make the universe fundamentally unstable, in a way that would cause it to end catastrophically in the far future.Because the Higgs field is thought to be everywhere, so it affects the vacuum of empty space-time in the universe."The mass of the Higgs is related to how stable the vacuum is," said Christopher Hill, a physicist at Ohio State University.Scientists said if the Higgs mass were just a few per cent different, the universe would not be doomed.

'God particle' could spell doom for the universe | Business Standard