| Many scientists and theoreticians are saying that the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson is like when electricity was discovered — we cannot comprehend the applications of the Higgs Boson. Just as no-one in the 1790's could have predicted the implications of electricity, humanity is once again at the forefront of a major realization in physics. |
With the announcement by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) of the likely discovery at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the elusive Higgs Boson, a new paradigm for science and physics may have arrived.
CERN scientist, Albert de Roeck, likened the discovery of the Higgs boson to that of electricity, the National Post reports. According to de Roeck just as humanity couldn't fathom the future applications of electricity, we can't yet comprehend the applications of the Higgs boson, the particle thought to help explain why matter has mass.
"At this moment my imagination is too small to do that," he said. Scientists are hoping this discovery of the particle — still in the early stages of its confirmation — will unlock mysteries of the universe, including dark matter and light-speed travel.
De Roeck said scrutinizing the new particle and determining whether it supported something other than the Standard Model would be the next step for CERN scientists.
Clarification could be expected by the beginning of 2013. Definitive proof that it fitted the Standard Model could take until 2015 when the LHC had more power and could harvest more data.
The LHC is due to go offline for a two-year refit in December that will see its firepower doubled to 14 trillion electronvolts — a huge step forward in the search for new particles and clues about what holds them all together.
Scientists speculate that the Higgs boson might one day allow the "un-massing" of objects or the launching of huge items into space by "switching off" the subatomic particle. If Higgs
Without mass, the likelihood of things traveling at light-speed may be possible. The scientific community is now campaigning for Peter Higgs, the man who published "the conceptual groundwork for the particle" in 1964, to be awarded the Nobel Prize.
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| It is still unclear if the Higgs Boson completes the Standard Model puzzle, or if the particle signifies a whole new branch of the explanation of the physical world. Image Source: Minutes Physics |
What are some of the possibilities enabled by discovery of the Higgs Boson?
The Higgs Boson gives mass to everything in the physical world. Does that mean that it may also somehow be responsible for gravity?A Higgs field theory proposes that the fundamental entities in nature are not particles but fields, like the electromagnetic field. Particles are represented by oscillations or persistent changes in these fields. The oscillations in the electromagnetic field are called photons; those in the Higgs field are called Higgs bosons Theoretically it may be possible to cancel the Higgs field, thereby achieving the conditions of weightlessness.
Chaos theory may be explained by incorporating Higgs bosons. For instance, boson particles might help to define the important features of the things like cloud or crystal formations or even why leafs has certain design?
Higgs Boson would hand over the key to universe and would unfold the mysteries of black holes as well.
Boson may also make possible the time travel with the help of quantum physics.
Using Higgs theory in nanotechnology applications may yield results. Such applications may lead to a cleaner, healthier world with advances in medicine and understanding of the particles would also make possible designs to transform pollutants.
The long-sought-after Higgs is the missing link in the Standard Model, but finding the Higgs has even wider implications: It opens the door beyond the Standard Model for explaining the existence of dark matter, the mysterious substance widely thought to make up 83 percent of all matter in the universe.
Most important due to Higgs Boson, the anti-matter may also be discovered.
In future we may see the devices which will either weaken the Higgs field to levitate the objects. Conceivably the Higgs Boson discovery would provide us the ways to run vehicles without any fuel.
Chaos theory may be explained by incorporating Higgs bosons. For instance, boson particles might help to define the important features of the things like cloud or crystal formations or even why leafs has certain design?
Higgs Boson would hand over the key to universe and would unfold the mysteries of black holes as well.
Boson may also make possible the time travel with the help of quantum physics.
Using Higgs theory in nanotechnology applications may yield results. Such applications may lead to a cleaner, healthier world with advances in medicine and understanding of the particles would also make possible designs to transform pollutants.
The long-sought-after Higgs is the missing link in the Standard Model, but finding the Higgs has even wider implications: It opens the door beyond the Standard Model for explaining the existence of dark matter, the mysterious substance widely thought to make up 83 percent of all matter in the universe.
Most important due to Higgs Boson, the anti-matter may also be discovered.
Nadine Bells at The Daily Brew writes:
SOURCES National Post, The Direct News
There's no knowing (at this point) if we'll see significant light-speed travel in this lifetime. But with scientists working on unlocking the secrets to mass and the speed of light, we can justify dreaming about it a bit.
SOURCES National Post, The Direct News
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