A long predicted boson, comprised of three quarks (like neutrons and protons) created when
two protons are smashed togethed just under the speed of
light. This was finally accomplished in a particle accelerator between
Switzerland and
France, known as the Large Hadron Collider. Although created by two protons, the mass of the god particle is hundreds of times the mass of a proton. You are probably wondering "how is this so", seeing as though mass is neither created or destroyed. In fact, mass can be "created" by sacrificing an amount of energy given by Einsteins famous equation e=mc^2. The kinetic energy (speed) of the protons is converted into the extra mass of the god particle. The god particle'
s namesake comes from the fact that it supposedly gives mass to all other particles. However, I for one find this difficult to accept. After all, nothing can cause itself to exist. Such a
thing would be timeless and immutable, and would therefore have no reason to interact with anything else. Quite to the contrary; it has been proven than every part of our
universe interacts with every other, to the point where it is
impossible to look at any one part in isolation. Instead, we must look at systems of interaction and interdependence. The fact of the matter is, how could the god particle give itself mass?
In other news, the world-renowned "Stephen Hawking" bets that one day the god particle
will be responsible for the end of the universe. Apparently, it'll cause some kinda spacial vacuum to spread in all directions at the speed of light until is consumes everything.I've got a problem with that, too. How could a vacuum traveling at the speed of light catch up and annihilate a photon traveling away from the source at the speed of light? I probably don't understand it correctly. Or maybe no one understands it correctly.
All in all, the higgs boson AKA 'god particle" was a relatively uninteresting discovery with little hold on real life, just like the rest of quantum
physics. The only reason it is well known is because of it's controversial
name.
Why the fuck did you look up god particle on
Urban Dictionary?
