Is that like a zeta-beam?
Hey, wait! How do we know that the radiation from the LHC won’t change Dr. Banner into the Hulk? Or make Reed Richards all stretchy? Or bring Adam Strange to Earth?
Is that like a zeta-beam?
Hey, wait! How do we know that the radiation from the LHC won’t change Dr. Banner into the Hulk? Or make Reed Richards all stretchy? Or bring Adam Strange to Earth?
Dumb question.
Higgs bosons will be created. These will not be virtual particles, but actual four dimensional Higgs bosons. Gravity is carried by Virtual Higgs bosons. So, my dumb question. What is carried by actual Higgs bosons, and where is it carried to?
How fast do Higgs bosons move? Some speed less than, but never equal to c? Always and precisely at c? Some speed always greater than but never equal to c?
Ok, these putative created Higgs bosons are brand new. Are new Higgs bosons being created a whole lot, all around us by extremely high energy particle collisions occurring naturally? Do they have an antiparticle? Do they have . . . and expected half life?
Hmmm. Too many questions, and the answers are only going to give me more questions.
Tris
No, gravity is carried by massless gravitons. The Higgs is a completely different particle.
Particles only act as force carriers when they’re virtual. A real Higgs would do basically the same things as a real particle of any other sort.
Always less than c, like any other massive particle. What their speed is will depend on their energy, but since the ones at the LHC will have only just enough energy to exist at all, their speed will be relatively low.
Naturally-occurring cosmic rays with greater energy than the LHC strike the Earth about once a day. Presumably some of these collisions produce Higgses, but we’d never notice, since the lifetime of the Higgs (like that of most subatomic particles) is extremely short. I’m pretty sure that the Higgs, like the photon and a few other particles, is its own antiparticle, but I’m not certain on that.
Why/how will they be four dimensional?
length, breadth, depth, and duration.
T
In the minimal picture (a single scalar Higgs boson), it would be its own antiparticle. In the minimal supersymmetric extension (a.k.a. MSSM), one requires a richer Higgs sector, including a charged Higgs that would (of course) not be its own antiparticle.
Thanks.
I’m learning.
Sort of.
Tris
Not female nerds. You want more mainstream gals. The nerdettes would roll their eyes and tease back with “Oh, that’s so funny, I forgot to laaaagh!”
Then they would go at them, not realizing the double-tongue-tendre involved. The male nerds would think of it immediately, though. Pretty soon they would all rush over, each grab a nerdette in a playful wrestling lock and give her a noogie while she squealed in mock protest.
Then the nerdettes would invite all the guys over to their sorority house, reminding them that “We’re a very spontaneous sorority.”
Pretty soon the whole house would be shaking.
– Well, after all, the next generation of nerds has to come into being somehow.
This depends on the mass of the Higgs, but the ballpark is 10[sup]-25[/sup] seconds. For things that last for such a short time, you can’t measure the time itself. In fact, the mass (think: energy) of the particle isn’t even a specific value, thanks to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. That is, if the particle is only present for time [symbol]D[/symbol]t, then its mass can vary by [symbol]D[/symbol]m=(hbar)/[symbol]D[/symbol]t without violating any conservation laws. So, you actually measure the lifetime by measuring the (real and true) spread in mass.