Sub Topic :THE GOD PARTICLE

Higgs Boson:

On the standard model, the Higgs particle is in its category because of its unique and important role in our cosmos. The Higgs field is the reason mass exists, it gives objects their mass. I personally have not taken a deep dive into the details of the Higgs but am still astounded by the role it plays in our world. CERN, the first detected in 2012 at the CERN lab, here's their definition of the Higgs boson," ​In the 1970s, physicists realised that there are very close ties between two of the four fundamental forces – 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 known as the electroweak force. The basic equations of the unified theory correctly describe the electroweak force and its associated force-carrying particles, namely the photon, and the W and Z bosons, except for a major glitch. All of these particles emerge without a mass. While this is true for the photon, we know that the W and Z have mass, nearly 100 times that of a proton. Fortunately, theorists Robert Brout, François Englert and Peter Higgs made a proposal that was to solve this problem. What we now call the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism gives a mass to the W and Z when they interact with an invisible field, now called the “Higgs field”, which pervades the universe."

The Higgs field led to the creation of cosmic strings, which will be our next subtopic next week.