Monday, 24 April 2023

R.M. Davis - "What the Higgs boson tells us about the universe"

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/what-the-higgs-boson-tells-us-about-the-universe



The Higgs field, on the other hand, is just as spinless as the Higgs boson. Like a college senior sitting forlorn in a career counselor’s office, it has no direction.

It’s no coincidence that both the Higgs boson and the Higgs field are spin-zero. “The properties of a particle are essentially properties of the field,” says Peter Onyisi, associate professor of physics for the University of Texas at Austin. Like waves in the ocean, “Higgs bosons are vibrations in a Higgs field.”