AaS! 53: Why Is the Higgs Boson Important? (Part 2)
Ask a Spaceman!
Paul M. Sutter
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🗓️ 4 April 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Part Two! What’s the relationship between the Higgs Boson and mass? What does that even mean, and how do we go about detecting it? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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| 0:00.0 | You know what time it is. It's time for Ask a Space Man. I'm your host, Paul Sutter. You've got questions and I've got answers. You know how the show works, but let's give it a round two. You go online, Twitter and Facebook, use the hashtag ask a space man send some questions |
| 0:22.7 | my way you can also email ask a space man at gmail.com or just go to ask a space man dot com |
| 0:28.5 | and they'll be like contact forms and stuff i all planned it out already to make it as easy as |
| 0:33.7 | possible for you to send me questions we We have one simple goal with this show. |
| 0:40.1 | Complete knowledge of time and space. And on the road to complete knowledge of time and space, |
| 0:44.9 | we have the unexpected part two episode on the Higgs boson. If you haven't listened to the |
| 0:53.6 | unexpected part one, I highly suggest you do |
| 0:58.1 | because it might make this part two make a little bit more sense. Maybe I can't guarantee anything. |
| 1:05.2 | It might even make you more confused, but I just highly suggest it. Go listen to part one if you |
| 1:10.6 | haven't because now it's time for Part 2. |
| 1:13.3 | The questions that are generating these two episodes are Jamie R via email, what's the Higgs |
| 1:19.0 | boson, and how does it make mass? |
| 1:21.2 | James Stobaw via email, what is the Higgs boson particle, and how does it interact with space |
| 1:25.9 | and or time? |
| 1:27.3 | At Croft Andy via Twitter, what is this thing called Higgs Energy, particle and how does it interact with space and or time at Croft Andy via |
| 1:28.2 | Twitter what is this thing called Higgs energy peter s on youtube what's the weak hierarchy |
| 1:33.1 | problem in Lorraine C is the Higgs field the force so even if you listen to part one just 30 seconds |
| 1:43.2 | ago here's a recap to get us all on the same page |
| 1:47.2 | of what I talked about unexpectedly in part one of this two-part series on the Higgs boson. |
| 1:52.6 | First things first, there are four forces of nature, and they are carried by particles that |
| 1:58.8 | we call the bosons. |
| 2:00.7 | There are also many particle species that are the building blocks of our universe that we call the fermions. |
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