Why the Higgs Boson Still Can't Solve the Mass Problem

#Higgs #Mass #Physics This video takes one simple question, the number on your bathroom scale, and follows it all the way down to where mass really comes from. We trace your weight into your atoms, into the nuclei, into the protons, and discover that almost all of it is the bound energy of the strong force, not the Higgs at all. Then we turn to what the Higgs actually does, the narrow and beautiful problem it solves for the fundamental particles, and walk the full history from spontaneous symmetry breaking and the nineteen sixty-four papers to the discovery at CERN in twenty twelve. Finally we lay out, honestly and calmly, everything the Higgs cannot explain, from the values of the masses to neutrinos, dark matter, and the worst prediction in the history of physics. The Higgs was a real triumph. The mass problem is still wide open. Sources: a. Particle Data Group, summary tables on particle masses and the Higgs boson b. CERN, public records of the ATLAS and CMS announcements of July twenty twelve c. Lattice quantum chromodynamics calculations of the proton mass, published in peer-reviewed physics journals #Higgs #HiggsBoson #Mass #Physics #QuantumPhysics #ParticlePhysics #CERN #StandardModel #DarkMatter #Cosmos