StarTalk Live: The Particle Party (Part 2)

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The StarTalk Live “Particle Party” celebrating the discovery of the Higgs boson continues with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye the Science Guy, CERN physicist Kyle Cranmer, comic co-host Eugene Mirman, Sarah Vowell and Scott Adsit.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:21.0	Welcome back to Star Talk Radio Brooklyn!
0:30.0	We're live at the Bell House.
0:33.0	So, Kyle, let's assume that this high confidence particle that you discovered that could be the Higgs really is the Higgs.
0:42.0	Where do you go next?
0:44.0	What are you going to do with your big bag of Higgs particles?
0:47.0	Well, thousands of them, yeah.
0:49.0	I think that it's pretty clear that it has something to do with this sort of more general thing called the Higgs Mechanism.
0:54.0	So it's probably has very much to do with the story of the Higgs and why this is important.
0:59.0	What's the Higgs field?
1:02.0	And who is Higgs? And who is Bose?
1:05.0	Yeah, who's Bose?
1:06.0	Thirty seconds ago.
1:08.0	Yeah, that's right.
1:09.0	Bose Higgs and Field.
1:10.0	Okay, right.
1:11.0	So our theory for all of these particles is that they're described by fields.
1:14.0	And so you maybe know about the electric field.
1:16.0	Like you've seen pictures of magnets and magnetic fields.
1:18.0	They're, you know, filling space.
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