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

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On 5/11/2023 5:08 PM, Richard Hertz wrote:
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> What is matter made of?
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> 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.
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> But there’s a hitch.
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> “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.”
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> 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.
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> 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.”
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_physics
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