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Re: 11 years after its "discovery", physicists don't know what is the Higgs Boson.

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Richard Hertz wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 7:23:23 PM UTC-3, whodat wrote:
> > On 5/11/2023 5:08 PM, Richard Hertz wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > What is matter made of?
> > >
> > > We know matter is made up atoms, and atoms are made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. And we know that protons and neutrons are made up of smaller particles known as quarks. Would probing deeper uncover particles even more fundamental? We don't know for sure.
> > > We do have something called the Standard Model of particle physICS
> >
> >
> > The key word is "MODEL." The real answer is, "we do not know." All
> > models are predictive of behavior, nothing more. Models tend to be
> > correct only within some range or another.
> > which is very good at explaining the interactions between subatomic
> > particles. The Standard Model has also been used to predict the
> > existence of previously unknown particles. The last particle to be found
> > this way was the Higgs boson, which LHC researchers discovered in 2012.
> > >
> > > But there’s a hitch.
> > >
> > > “The Standard Model doesn’t explain everything,” says Dr. Don Lincoln, a particle physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) near Chicago. “It doesn’t explain why the Higgs boson exists. It doesn’t explain in detail why the Higgs boson has the mass that it does.”
> > >
> > > In fact, the Higgs turned out to be a heck of a lot less massive than predicted — theory had held that it would be about “a quadrillion times heavier than it is,” says Lincoln.
> > >
> > > The mysteries don’t end there. Atoms are known to be electrically neutral — the positive charge of the protons is cancelled out by the negative charge of the electrons — but as to why this is so, Lincoln says, “Nobody knows.”
> > >
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_physics
> > >
> > >
> 
> Matter? RIKEN BNL Research Center, from US gov. affirm that:
> 
> - Matter is composed of atoms.
> - Atoms are composed of electrons and the nucleon, and are electrically neutral.
> - The nucleon is composed by protons and neutrons.
> - Both of them are composed by three quarks, which are bonded together by the gluon force.
> - The quarks in nucleon are rather loosely coupled by gluon, which increase its strength on any attempt to separate the quarks.
> - This “Strong Force" is described through QCD (Quantum Chromodynamics). Such Strong Force "confine" quarks in the nucleon.
> - This Strong Force has a property called “asymptotic freedom”. The force is relatively weak when quarks are close together, and becomes
>   stronger when they are further apart (Nobel Prize 2004, Gross, Politzer, and Wilczek). This property along with the prediction of “parity
>   symmetry breaking” (Nobel Prize 2008, Lee and Yang) are two of the foundations of contemporary particle and nuclear physics.
> - Lattice QCD is an approach to solve the QCD theory of quarks and gluons. It is a lattice gauge theory formulated on a grid or lattice of
>   points in space and time. When the size of the lattice is taken infinitely large and its sites infinitesimally close to each other, the
>   continuum QCD is recovered.
> -  Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (LQCD) models require enormous computing power in supercomputers to work. Current hardware,
>    which is specifically designed, reach 1,000 Teraflops (IBM), but it's not even close to what physicists are asking. Project with near
>    1 million cores from 16,000 GPU are being developed. The objective is to render, in real time, the process of lattice working.
> 
> - One group of physicists think that quarks are made by small particles (peons), which seems to be an endless proposal of infinitesimal
>   partition of "matter". Reasons are "just because", which is not very scientific.
> 
> Meanwhile, problems like how a bicycle works or why ice is slippery remain unsolved.


Because it is, in the case of ice, when you stand on it.. the pressure
melts the ice a little bit so you get a sort of instantaneous 
water surface on which you’re slipping. Because water expands when it
freezes, so the pressure tries to undo the expansion and melts it.






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 to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
and challenge
 the unchallengeable.

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  Re: 11 years after its "discovery", physicists don't know what is the Higgs Boson. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2023-05-10 20:16 -0700
    Re: 11 years after its "discovery", physicists don't know what is the Higgs Boson. Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-05-11 06:21 -0700
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        Re: 11 years after its "discovery", physicists don't know what is the Higgs Boson. whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-05-11 17:21 -0500
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