The Crazy Mass-Giving Mechanism of the Higgs Field Simplified
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Sources of mass
2:33 Blinkist Free Trial
3:51 Particles are excitations in Fields
6:09 How Mass comes from interaction with Higgs
10:42 Why do some particles interact and others don't?
11:31 How our universe would not exist without Higgs
SUMMARY:
How does the Higgs give mass to particles? How do elementary particles gain mass? All mass is Energy. 99% of the mass of an atom is contained in the binding energy within the nucleus. But about 1% of your mass is contained in the mass of the subatomic particles that make up the atoms, electrons and quarks.
How do these subatomic particles get an intrinsic mass? This is due to the Higgs Field. To understand how it works, let's look at the standard model of particle physics.
Every particle is a quantized excitation in its own field. An excitation of the electromagnetic field is a photon, an excitation of the electron field is an electron, etc. All fields, in their lowest energy state, even when no excitations or particles are present, always have fluctuations. These are virtual particles that exist for such a short period of time, that they cannot be measured. They borrow energy from the vacuum and give it right back very quickly when they are annihilated.
But this energy from virtual particles, collectively adds up to no real particles. Real particles are created only when enough energy is transferred to a field from other fields to cause an excitation. An electron can only occur in energy units of 0.511 MeV, which is its mass.
#higgs
But it only has a mass because of its interaction with the Higgs field. Without this interaction, an electron would be massless. A massless electron would be like a charged photon, and move at the speed of light. Without the Higgs field, all the other fundamental particles of the standard model would also be massless, with the possible exception of neutrinos.
So the question is how does this mass come about? To understand this, we have to understand the concept of vacuum expectation value of the various fields.
Let’s imagine there were no Higgs field. If we then took any of the fields and put them inside an empty box, like the electron field, the weight of that box would be zero. In other words the field would have no mass, even though the virtual electrons would be present throughout it. Similarly, all the other fields of the Standard Model would also have no mass inside the empty box, just quantum fluctuations.
But, there is an exception to this rule, the Higgs Field. It is unique because the Higgs Field in empty space, unlike every other field, has a mass. So if were to weigh the box with the Higgs field inside, it would have a weight. This is called the vacuum energy, or vacuum expectation value. It is equal to 246 GeV. This is just the value that we would "expect" the Higgs Field to have when it is in its lowest energy state.
Anything that interacts with the Higgs field now effectively interacts with this new vacuum expectation value. And that interaction imparts energy. And since energy and mass are equivalent, the form this interaction energy takes is indistinguishable from the energy associated with a rest mass. So when a fundamental particle interacts with the Higgs field, it gains an energy or intrinsic mass.
Individual electrons are constantly interacting with the Higgs field, which effectively slows the electron down. So if you apply a force to an electron, it gets a sort of push-back from the Higgs field that causes the electron to resist acceleration. This property is what we call inertial mass.
How much mass an excitation or particle in any given field has, depends on its coupling constant. The fields of all massive particles are coupled to the Higgs field. The larger the coupling constant, the more mass its particles will have. Without the Higgs field, none of the fundamental particles would have an intrinsic mass. So electrons, quarks, and W and Z bosons are coupled to the Higgs field, while the fields of massless particles, like photons and gluons are not. Why are some particles coupled, meaning why do some particles interact with the Higgs field, while others do not? We’re not sure.
The mechanism of the Higgs Field giving out mass to other particles is called symmetry breaking.
Regarding neutrinos, the Standard Model predicts that they should be massless, but measurements indicate that they do have a very tiny mass. We don’t know the origin of that mass. It could be that they also interact with the Higgs, but no one really knows for sure. - Věda a technologie
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Now, what happens in glass or water that suddenly photons don’t travel at speed of light?
Is the photon field interacting differently with Highs field in vaccine vs in glass? Or is there some other field? Does photon acquire inertial mass in this process? Does the photon interact with gravity differently when it is traveling through vacuum vs traveling through glass (which mostly is vacuum?
@@williamliamsmith4923 thanks for explaining how God did it. At least we are one step closer to understanding Him
Standard model is a way to nowhere.
@@dongshengdi773 🙄
neutalize the higgs field and you have FTL
Thank you for being one of the few people brave enough to believe the CZcams public will understand the knowledge of the Higgs that we're so hungry for. It was super clear! Surprising it's taken this long to get a straight-forward explanation like that but thank you for being the one to do it
It's a nice sentiment. But "youtube public" isn't some exclusive group of people, just a mechanism for information delivery that everyone can use. Like publishing a book to a bookstore. You wouldn't say the "book store public"
@@wyskass861 99% has drool in their mouths but that 1% is responsible for all scientific discoveries and progress.
@@MRMIKE276 True Indeed. But, you need to birth 100 people to make 1 smart one, so that's the fact of life.
@MRMIKE276 yes because anyone not at the forefront of scientific research and breakthrough is a drooling mouth breather... the world is never just black or white you know...
💯💪🏽Same here. Thank you for making this content available for us on here in the way you break it down with visuals and examples. It all adds to the science and unseen realm we're yet to discover
First explaination I've heard that doesn't shy away from showing the complexity of these models, thank you.
Agreed. People have lost the ethic of understanding the model before challenging the model.
Yes Arvin is very good at providing simple explanations for complexity, rather than avoiding the complexity altogether and oversimplifying.
Psst... there is a bunch more complicated stuff left out... Here's a more complete explanation:
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who read will experience negative energy creeping out there feet. Tell it's time for Jesus energy wash
yep, complex concepts need complex explanations
I’m not sure that it’s possible to present the topic any better than the way you did it. It turned out to be systematic, concise and intelligible. No wonder you have so many subscribers. You bring great benefit to people. Thank you!
This is really a public service that you're doing..i thank you for doing this awesome work of making complicated topics so easy to understand and visualize in ur videos. Awesome sir!
But this is pseudo science, born from irrational Einstein theories. Almost all that is discussed here is just gibberish.
Uh, hello..... McFly....... You forgot to capitalize { i }... Also, I really don't like having to call you out twice, but you misspelled { your }
@@everythingisalllies2141 not really. some of the videos helped me visualise and understand some of the basic stuff for uni - for me that was electromagnetic polarisation (to understand fluorescence imaging and FRET to measure protein-protein interactions).
@@everythingisalllies2141 so what’s the actual truth?
@@johnk6598 If I try to even hint at the truth, my comments are censored and do not appear. You will have to figure it out on your own, but rest assured, we are surrounded by a forest of lies and deceit. Question EVERYTHING. Especially if the govt and academia are pushing some pet topics.
You're one of my top 5 CZcams channels and I'm SO grateful to you for helping me understand these complex concepts. 😊❤ (I still don't, but it helps!)
His goal is to explain how the Universe works without the math. So if you comment what you're yet to understand he will help those aspects. Although, generally it is challenging for us to understand how we are fields similar to the electromagnetic field our phone calls travel through.
These quantum mechanical snippets are amazing, but it would help if he made a holistic presentation of quantum field theory. He already has a few that attempt this. But it's still challenging to visualise the whole picture, from fields > particle excitation > particle interaction > atom formation > molecule formation > molecule interaction > cell formation > cellular interaction > multicellular organisms.
Then move to special and general relativity's Block Time understanding of the Universe, and perhaps give some mention of consciousness within block time to really tie everything in the Universe all together.
@@jack.d7873 " ... Then move to special and general relativity's Block Time understanding of the Universe, ..." The trouble is ... currently there is no connection between quantum mechanics and general relativity (let's not talk about cosmology ...).
Moreover it is far from assured that the current particle physics is complete or even correct. What you will frequently hear "it is the best we have".
" if he made a holistic presentation of quantum field theory" That is a TALL order .. because I do not think anything like that exists yet ...
" .. without the math ... " ... conveniently so. Because he would have to explain "re-normalization" which existence (IMHO: strongly) suggests that the math tools used in the quantum mechanics are still not sufficient enough.
But for an intro to Higgs field, yes, I have seen many worse.
Just a taste how the forest of the particle physics is tangled: czcams.com/video/Ztc6QPNUqls/video.html
Enjoy!
Hope @ScienceClicE is one of those five. Wish he would post more often but I understand it takes time to make amazing videos like Arvin does.
Amazing explanation of the seemingly impossible. Bravo Arvin!
Professors on my university were not able to explain this. I had a problem with understanding and with all equations. But this video is telling more than year of study :).
This was the most lucid and comprehensive, as well as beautiful , introduction to QFT I've ever seen. Bravo!
I proudly proclaim: I still dont get it.
Me neither.
@@ericsonhazeltine5064 why aree you here? R u interested in physics but having a hard time to understand some fundamentals of it?
@@lorenzantoque1438 sure
@@lorenzantoque1438me too😭
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Who are you to belittle those who don’t understand? Instead of being unkind, how about you try to explain in a different way? Out of all of these comments, you are the weak one, not those who admit to needing more information to understand. Also your lack of whole words says everything anyone needs to know about you. Work on your character and empathy. F-
I am in awe of your ability to take notoriously difficult subject matter and explain it in a way that I barely have to waste brain cycles understanding it.
Let me add a second comment of different nature.
I've never seen such concerted effort, by part of anyone, in explaining the nature of the mass-giving property of the Higgs field, without calling into action the various laws and formula associated with the Higgs, not even once.
Therefore, on a personal and professional level, have my best compliments for this great work of yours!
Greetings,
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The video is brilliantly well put together. Now the concepts make much more sense. Thank you for the time and effort, Arvin.
I'm so glad you mentioned that our contributions to excellent science presenters like yourself help make the "I see what you mean" animations that accompany your narrations. Visual analogy of complex concepts are what makes CZcams videos so valuable as teaching tools. But going from ideas to sketches to animation is the mixture of imagination plus design dollars. Thanks for balancing the talking head with creative animation even when the quantum world seems so far from our views of reality. Good stuff.
Exactly! I always try to imagine stuff in my mind and those animations do exactly that already, so I can have a visual understanding already! That‘s great stuff!
Well said - really enjoyed this video.
Fabulous and fascinating explanation with great visuals and analogies! Thank you so much for this. I've been an arm chair quantum physicist for decades, but every time I take a moment to study it, I learn something new/additional.
Amazing! This is the most simplified explanation i have heard so far about the Higgs field. Can only wonder the meticulous effort that went behind in disentangling the complex concepts
Dude, there's a lot of great science channels out there. And they impart a lot of scientific understanding. Most of them allow me to repeat words and concepts I barely understand. Your channel doesn't just impart the information, it helps me understand them as well. You deserve soooo many accolades. Thank you for spending your time sharing everything you've learned. It is most appreciated.
Your baby steps in developing understanding in your audience is excellent.
In fact the 'baby steps' analogy helps everyone get on board.
I love your 'baby step' insight, many people give up learning because they do not realise others have lucked out with earlier 'baby steps'.
Earlier learning can be an accident and some look like geniuses.
Such a concise and well done explanation!
I would not call that concise, he spent a great deal of time reintroducing concepts he’s already talked about.
This explanation is not really too informative.
The Higgs field couples left and right handed components of the fields of massive particles. An attempted explanation of the Higgs mechanism without mention of chirality doesn't really get to the core of how it works.
Also, in the standard model, neutrinos cannot couple to the Higgs field, because their weak charge is dependent on chirality.
@@ozzymandius666 informative is relative. I seriously doubt that he made this video for people with advanced degrees or knowledge in physics.
Smh...
I'll second that... these videos of his are for the layperson with a heightened interest in physics and this simple explanation (which he was transparent about in his intro) covered QFT and the Higgs mechanism... concisely as you alluded to. Anyone wishing to know more (chirality etc) now has a good foundation to delve deeper. Job done... PBS Spacetime should get a few more viewers now.
@@Noneya5555 Shake yer head all ya like. People who watch this still don't know how the Higgs mechanism works.
"The Higgs field acts like gravy coupling to massive particles" with some pretty graphics is not an explanation.
This is on my top 5 best channels on CZcams now, its like Mr. Ash read my thoughts and knew every doubt I ever had and decided to explain it the best way possible, thank you so much!!
Damn dude, that was incredible. I've been (secretly) studying/reading/desperately trying to understand quantum particle physics for years now, and your 10 minute explanation has given me more knowledge and understanding than almost everything I've studied previously.
It has meant that I understand what it means to be a field and how this relates to the energy's that are defined in the standard model.
The graphics were stunning and simple.
New subscriber gained, and I'm now going to blitz through your vids!!
I love, love, LOVE this sort of info! I'm not expecting a graduate course on the subject's mathematics, but I do enjoy seeing a little math and explanations. The visuals always help. And, as always, I ALWAYS learn some great new information from your vids! Thank you so much, Arvin.
All your content always helps me understand cosmology better, even though I've seen countless other videos on the same subject. Awesome graphics is helping a lot here, I'm so visually oriented. I had a bit of an "Ahh haa" moment when you related the positive vacuum energy of the Higgs field analogous to the field itself having an intrinsic mass. That makes so much more sense now. Awesome video.
Thank you for explaining the edge of knowledge on this topic. It's very difficult to get a visual explanation from the mathematical side of it so this is very appreciated
Man I really have no words to say how gratefull I am, u explained something so complex in a way that evryone can understand, pls, continue with ur content because u are unique, I never saw a youtube channel that explain complex concepts in a so good way like you
Very true. You are exactly right. I fully agree. Cheers, Alex.
This video is the most comprehensive explanation of how all the fields interact and how it results in mass. Thank you so much and please make more.
Arvin, I'm probably about your age. I've been reading popular physics and watching videos since A Brief History of Time. I'm usually left wirh a feeling of awe at the concepts in any of these sources, but your videos are the only ones where I feel like I've actually learned something profound. Your QFT video was amazing, but this really adds to it. After a lifetime of 'knowing' mass-energy equivalence, after watching this I really felt it. It feels like there isn't really any such thing as mass, it's just how we explain the mechanical effects of energy. You have a gift for this, thank you!
Thank you. Indeed, there is only energy, and nothing else really.
@@ArvinAsh energy is the rate of electromagnetism that systems throw out up and down from the equator to all arround - systems like: sub - atoms, atoms, clusters of atoms, superclusters of atoms, and so on to form our star, then clusters of stars, super clusters of stars, super clusters of clusters so on to form our universe, which is an atom of another universe of universe you name it?
Every one of the above has an own field - in each field they atract in oposite by cross section from north to south and all meet at the center of the system and each aport as needed by the center white sphere just like our galaxy show which is the combustion chamber of the systems.
systems may be seen as 2 circles one inside the other where the inside in dimeter is half the out side in space, gravity etc in some others is the oposite say like in energy the inside is double the out side cause the inside conteins the heart of the star or the sun
the graviity of the 4 rocky planets in the inside all togather ad up to arround 26 M/S2
This was the only missing link in my understanding it seems!
You've connected all the dots in my understanding of QFT
I'm in love with your ability to make people understand such a complex topic with your explanation ❤
As always, this was a fantastic explanation. I have a bunch of questions, but I'll hold tight and see what dispatches come next. Thank you for doing what you do; your output is just simply excellent!
Never thought of the Higgs field as gravy - brilliant.
Great video & explaination , thanks
Excellent explanation. Glad there exists a CZcams channel like this.
This is one of the best explained videos I’ve ever seen, I never knew this subject could be explained so simply, great job, we need more of this
This was incredibly well explained and illustrated, thanks a bunch!
Incredible.! Both the theory and your explanation are wonderful examples of how beauty arises from simplicity. Thank you Arvin. 👍
Hey, Arv. You friggin awesome, man. I just thought you should know. I wish we had people like you around when I was a kid. All this stuff I'm just now learning could have come in handy way back then. You put it all in a way that's intuitive and understandable. We had Mr. Wizard. Kids today have you. You are a treasure, my guy. Keep that shit up.
I had Captain Kangaroo and Mr Green jeans.
@@josephbieberly8624 neither were science shows. Mr. Wizard was a science show.
I had Carl Sagan.
@@2000sborton To be fair, I had Carl Sagan, too but, I was 7. I understood Mr. Wizrad. Carl Sagan put me to sleep.
I'm quite sure a solid understanding of the Higgs field would have allowed you get the square block through the round hole at age 7.
Having tried to understand QED and astrophysics for three decades as a simple pursuit of knowledge your description brings me closer to " getting it" than most other experts, simple, concise and conceptual. Thanks
Physics becomes little bit understandable for the people like me due to scientist like you. What a amazing topic to go through !
Fantastic presentation as usual, your explanations clarify these complex interactions!
Thank you Arvin for allowing a layman to grasp a little understanding of our reality. Fantastic video, well done.
Glad you liked it
Thanks for making these high level physics easy for us to understand. I really like the gravy analogy!
Best explanation of the subject I've come across. Amazing work!
This has got to be the clearest explanation of the Higgs mechanism yet, and I was able to actually follow right along with it.
Excellent work my friend. You’re helping to propel humanity forward.
Never seen a Video, with this amount of correct imformation and quality, on youtube. Very well described.
I'm a very big fan of your work sir, for many years you continue to amaze and teach so well. Thank you!
What a great video. Clear explanation for general knowledge pointing to a deeper understanding.
You are fantastic! It´s incredible hard to explain hard concepts like these in words that people who don´t have deep learnings in physics can understand. Congrats, you are an Amazing teacher (and i´m sure that an amazing scientist too)!
Greetings from Uruguay.
This is a tour de force [sic] performance, taking a mind-bogglingly complex subject and making it semi-understandable to this interested amateur. Thank you!
Very well done Arvin and team! Always look out for your new vids! Thanks for the great content and the break in my never ending CZcams scrolling!!! 👍 😁
Much appreciated! Glad you find them worthwhile.
Can't thank you enough for explaining this in such amazing way...
I really like the way you mention/make available other aspects of particle physics in this video without feeling the need to explain every detail. A lot of the time quark colors and gluon exchanges are left out of simple representations of baryons, but someone watching a video like this might want to actually question what's going on in there from just seeing it on screen. The offhand mention of virtual particles being caused by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle was great too: Knowing what that is isn't important for this question, but the terminology is provided for those now wondering the mechanics behind it.
There's a lot of nice scripting too: "Because these are quantized fields, any excitation occurs only in set quantities" was a great one, connecting the shared parts of both words to make "quantized" a word easier for someone new to quantum physics to understand.
This video is incredibly well made, I hope you're proud of it.
Thanks for making this understandable. really appreciate the graphics too
I was wondering why mass has gravity and I wound up here. Now at least I know more about why mass exists in the first place, and I’m better positioned to understand the answer to my question when I find it. What a great explanation! Thank you!
According to Einstein mass causes gravity because it bends space-time. In his theory gravity is not a force- it's the fabric of spacetime that's been curved by a massive object. This also causes gravitational lensing- this is when mass bends and curves spacetime creating a lens like effect which bends light. We see this when we look at distant galaxies with our telescopes. The first time it was witnessed was when the sun was going to be eclipsed and Einstein's theory predicted the sun would bend the light from the stars behind it such that we would be able to see them when the sun dimmed enough. They are physically behind the sun; we shouldn't be able to see them- but if the space around the sun was truly curved by the sun's mass, we would be able to see them because the light would follow this curve- and sure enough, once the sun dimmed, we could see them.
That said- just because we know mass bends and curves spacetime that doesn't mean it is the same thing as gravity. Other scientists think it is a force and that if we search long and hard enough we will find a particle that carries that force- a "graviton". But- so far- we haven't found the particle or the corresponding field. Right now they are working feverishly on trying to come up with a quantum theory of gravity that would unite relativity and quantum mechanics- but they can't find one that works.
My personal theory is that because spacetime isn't real- it's an emergent property- neither is gravity. But that's a whole other post because it's very detailed and difficult to explain. And really, I should say- it's not "my" theory- it's just the theory I agree with. And really- it isn't even a theory- it's just an idea right now- that's it. Hopefully it leads to a theory that can be tested but- right now it's just an idea. It comes form looking at the Planck length and Planck second. The Planck length is the shortest, smallest length that can exist- not the smallest we can measure mind you, but literally the smallest that can exist. Anything smaller loses the properties that define it, and we cannot say anything intelligent about it nor observe it. Why- because we "observe" things by bouncing something off it- an electron or a photon usually- and if the thing you're trying to observe is smaller than either of those particles- then you have no way of bouncing anything off it, there's nothing small enough to give you any resolution. The planck second is the smallest amount of time that can exist- nothing smaller can exist as "time" because it would lose the properties that make time, time. Time is a measurement of change- and the fastest, most simple change that could possible take place is a photon moving from one location to another. So the Planck second is defined by the amount of time it takes light to travel a Planck length. We cannot say anything intelligible about an amount of time shorter than that because there's no possible change that could take place any faster than that. The speed of light is the speed limit of the universe. So- this means spacetime exists in small, discreet packets- it's quantized. And generally speaking- when we've seen this in the past- it means it's an emergent property- there is something more fundamental that it's made from.
Wow! Excellent video as always. Very well explained so most people who like this kind of information understand this complex subject!
Wow, great video.Thank you! I've been needing to understand all of this.❤
I do not keep abreast of the latest theories of quantum physics but I found this surprising and fascinating. I had no idea scientists had this detailed sense of the nature of physical existence.
Yep, the basics of this theory have been around for almost a hundred years. Higgs field was theorized about 60 years ago.
Your explanation of the Higgs field, nearly doubled my understanding of mass electron and photons. The parts I haven’t been able to find, you just explained rather neatly and I appreciate your time and effort. Thanks for making this!
Such a wonderful explanation!
Wow. Your tone of voice really suits when you explain... it's interesting how a person's tone, word choices and even accent have such big impact to the listener weather they are aware of it or not. It could be a missed opportunity to learn unfortunately... after this video I'm subscribed and looking forward to scoop out the rest of your videos. \m/-.-'
The most comprehensible video about fields online... Thanks a lot for making this.
I do hope field theory is indeed correct, because it makes so much intuitive sense.
As always, thanks for the fantastic breakdown Arvin.
What is field theory?
I'm coming to the realization of just how old I am. In my day it was the aether, which was disproven. The higgs field seems a lot like the aether, perhaps a much better definition of some field.
Is the higgs field hypothetical as an answer to the questions or has it been detected?
@@garyrolen8764 The Higgs boson, signifying the existence of the Higgs field, was discovered in 2012 (and resulted in a Nobel prize). The Higgs field is an evidence-based part of the best model we have to explain the (small-scale features of the) universe. I don't know how old you are but the Michelson-Morley experiment, considered to disprove the existence of the aether, was conducted in 1887.
@@richardaversa7128 nothing close to the ideas of the higgs field existed when my friends and I were in college. The closest thing was the aether.
@@garyrolen8764 yes, I believe you may have expressed that in your first comment. Not sure when you were in college, but it is interesting to consider that Higgs began publishing his work in the late 1960s, and quantum field theory ideas began appearing in the literature in the late 1920s. Of course it wasn't taught in universities until much later, but the information did exist. Makes me wonder what is out there now that hasn't yet filtered down to students and laypeople.
@@richardaversa7128 yes. We studied relativity, but even then our professor was not able to get deep into it. My friends and I were far more curious than our education was prepared to teach.
I'm deeply fascinated with field theory and wish I could have had a better education on it or been born later.
I get more energy from this video than all the rain, storm, yoga, thunderstorms combined. I set the video and volume just right. Then after placing the phone in the preferred spot I shut my eyes and VOILA! 14 minutes later I wake up so refreshed I can sing to the birds. Try it folks. You'll never regret it.
Wtf. Drugs are bad.
It was really enlightening! I was imagining these things but was not sure about, also in a little scattered manner. This video gave visual explanations beyond the mass energy equivalence. Thanks.
One of the clearest and most comprehensible explanations of the Higgs field that I've seen. Thank you!
Thank you for this. I always recall Einstein saying that "if you can't teach it to a 6 year old, you don't know it yourself." I'm not 6, but this applies strongly, still. You're a great teacher!
Did E really say that?
I thought that was Feynman. At least Feyman asserted teaching is an integral part of his technique for learning. Research. Teach. Fill in holes in your knowlege. Teach.
Okay, this was a really good explanation. There must be some condition or property that causes some fields to interact with the Higgs field and others to not. Do other fields interact with each other in any interesting way (e.x., does the photon field interact with the electron field, and if so to what effect)? Where did these fields come from? Did fields exist before the big bang? Do fields decay, or is it possible to produce fields not typically found in nature? Could there be fields we are not presently aware of, and if so how would we go about detecting them?
Is the concept of field a human way to approach how particle interact? Could exist another way to study the subject without them?
Am I alive....is this chair real...what is happening...is that good...what's in third
You explain everything in such simple words sir, Thank you so much!
Wow, I finally think I can wrap my mind around this! Great vid!
Hi Arvin, I think perhaps a better analog to the Higgs field would be a pan with a mixture of starch and water in it (a non-newtonian fluid), rather than the gravy. As other fields interact with the higgs field, they would be given their mass and the faster they move, the more resistance the higgs field becomes. This would continue until the field prevents further acceleration by normal means (normal meaning any means of acceleration that we are currently aware of), when the starch becomes a solid, disallowing particles with mass to reach the speed of light.
The propagation of rythmic sound through the starch/water mixture is pretty cool...
Why yes, how foolish of him to invoke a familiar everyday substance like gravy when he could have compared it to a non-newtonian fluid. It's almost as though he was intentionally keeping it simple so that lay people could get an intuitive understanding of advanced physics. The cheek of it.
Gravy is a fluid filled with corn starch until just before it’s a non-Newtonian fluid. It’s likely you’re both on the same page, but he is also an effective communicator toward his particular audience.
Slowing down only converts moving mass into slowly moving mass. Energy depends on mass.
Resistance causes objects to slow down. The Higgs field establishes inertia; it doesn't slow anything down.
The gift of Arvin Ash is his ability to explain complex things to a simple and understandable way. Kudos and elbow grease to you.
Hello Arvin, I discovered your channel yesterday with this video and have watched a few more that have really expanded my cosmology and even my theology. I have been getting my physics media from the Fermilab channel in the recent times but I find his presentation skips details then moves into concepts that people educated in physics know. I like your presentation of the fundamentals, they are really easy to grasp and how you go into the implications physics has on our everyday world.
WOW, awesome explanation. I wish Mr. Ash was my science teacher when I was in school.
Wonderful explanation and accompanying visuals, thank you! While the big picture is clear, this video left me with many more fundamental questions. What As you say yourself, why are some particles coupled when others do not? What is the nature of the interactions? How might the fields themselves be tunable? There is so much more work to be done, with boundless excitement that will come along with it!
Yep, there are still a lot of unanswered questions for future generations of scientists to get to the bottom of!
With all these such minute tuning distances, you must eliminate time. And photons being faster are the message carrier/never late deliverers that remain at the bottom of the hat. Upon when particles form too heavy of atoms, photons no longer need to carry messages for it (has thus formed) as that heavier element is, constructed complete. Dark matter is that which that matter cannot/will not gain weight from the quanta realm. It stays Stuck; gravity likely not made as a biproduct from it. But-why not ?
Wow what a great video! The insight into the Higgs field in an understandable way, never seen before this way, great job!!! Thumbs UP!
Outstanding! Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks for the good explenation that makes it understandable to comprehend the higgs field and mass of particals and fotons that don't have.
i think yuh mean, "futons".
Hi Arvin - many thanks again, for another excellent video on a .complex subject. Any chance of you making a video all about Neutrinos ? That would be great, especially given the interesting History around those particles. (Like the Solar Neutrino problem - now solved, I believe). Thanks again Arvin.
Yes, that subject is on my list.
Thx arvin
Thank you for your lucid and understandable explanation of the Higgs Boson and how it gives things Mass. Thank you also for your honesty when it comes to simply not knowing aspects of the mechanism. As a theist, my faith looks at the data and the questions without explanation at this time hoping for further effort on all physicists to find The Answer.
Absolutely fantastic video. Beautifully explained, thank you for breaking this down I've been confused about the Higgs field for a while.
I have to say what's said already a hundred times, i'm so glad you explain these phenomena with such attention to detail, keep it up!
Btw i'm doing a scientific initiation in quantum computing, and i would love to see things just a little more in depth, but obviously you have to know your public, i'm just one guy
Thanks. Most of my videos are pretty detailed. If you want more details on this I have other videos you might want to check out. See link in description for one of them.
@@ArvinAsh But wouldn't this solve other problems at the same time if it was true? That's what I do not understand. If the Higgs is needed to create mass and mass is needed to create particles, then creating particles would take energy out of the field. Any uniform field that is highly smooth would want to fill in any voids, and that process could create something which looks like gravity if the field was trying to correct these mass-bearing defects.
If you look at space itself as the dividing force which defines everything from atoms to galaxies, it seems pretty simple. Mass and density are tied to pressure, but pressure could also be interpreted as the weakening of a barrier force. Sufficient mass will experience maximum pressure at its center, but there is net zero 'gravity' at the center. But if gravity were only the side effect of the depletion of a force, then the compressive force inside a massive object is actually a reduction in the force that holds particles apart. With sufficient depletion the weaker barrier forces would also fail, resulting in anything from fusion up to degenerate neutron matter and possibly singularities.
The problem with this is that the space between galaxies is believed to still be expanding, which should only be possible if either a) there is still energy being put into our universe from an outside source and it must spread out to retain smoothness; or b) the bound energy of the field is a topological flaw and it repels itself, expanding eternally until it approaches an energy density of zero.
(12:00) *"In a universe with no Higgs Field, a massless electron would have an infinite radius."* ... Yes, "infinity" is once again necessarily avoided, yet science has no problem with positing the existence of a "Multiverse" (an infinite number of infinitely existing universes where an infinite number of events are simultaneously taking place at all times).
... This is what happens when one hand of science doesn't know what the other hand is doing.
An interpretation such as the MVI is not subject to mathematical issues because it is a mere interpretation. If it were to go into the category of theory, then we would no longer speak of infinite worlds but of unlimited worlds or, in fact, it is already known as the theory of "many worlds". The important thing is that if infinite appears in mathematics then the reality that emerges from it will be absurd, which apparently never happens.
@@Razor-pw1xn *"The important thing is that if infinite appears in mathematics then the reality that emerges from it will be absurd, which apparently never happens."*
... Numbers are infinite because there are no barriers in place to render them finite. Infinity also works within the realm of mathematics because numbers are not made up of any physical substance nor do they demonstrate any spatial presence. However, the universe is made up of matter and energy that demonstrates a spatial presence. The "absurdity" ensues whenever we claim this to be infinite.
Anything that demonstrates a physical, spatial presence cannot be infinite and must have a measurable, finite origin point as per the *2nd Law of Existence.*
When you say "coming up, right now", it is so damn satisfying. Even though logically I am already aware of the fact, presenting it in such a way makes it satisfying and exciting
Wow. Subbed. That was a great video. Thank you for sharing and educating.
As a 2 month old, I can confirm that this was explained simply
I'm not heavy, I just excite the Higgs field a lot.
Best expansion I’ve seen in years, maybe ever! Thanks for the good work!
Thanks Arvin, your explanations are impeccable! This is top notch content!
Content creators like yourself are the new teachers of the world. What an amazing job of explaining something so complex to mere mortals like myself. Thank you.
Seems the Higgs Field is a modern conceptualization of the Ether. Something has to be there for everything else to exist.
The Higgs field is Lorentz invariant, which differs from the idea of the Ether.
(This isn’t necessarily a contradiction of what you said..)
@@drdca8263 "(This isn’t necessarily a contradiction of what you said..)"
Even less so since I always thought the Ether was invariant. Nothing more than a backdrop upon which to pin everything else. It may be old conceptually, but it's still kinda the same idea as the one field among many that allows all to interact. The idea of an ether never did bother me, if it turns out to be a field...
@@Blackmark52 Well, the earlier conception of the Ether as a medium for electromagnetic waves wasn’t that it be Lorentz invariant, which is why they concluded that that one interferometry experiment ruled out [the version of the concept of the Ether that they had at the time]. But yeah, if you want to call something like the Higgs field “Ether” I guess I can see that making some sense
@@drdca8263 "I can see that making some sense."
The ether was never explained other than in terms of what they knew at the time. Had they known and understood the Higgs field, they could well have said : yeah, that. Because they would have no need to conjecture an ether.
PS think about how much farther ahead we'd be
As always great visualization-explanation! Thanks!
Very well explained and illustrated. Appreciate you, Arvin.
Also, hype intro.
The visualization of Matter x Boson x Matter fields is something I was thinking about last night.
If position/momentum is only a probability how does an excitation/particle in a Matter field, which creates the Boson excitation/particle guarantee the Boson makes it to the other Matter field excitation/particle location based on what we expect in say a Feynman Diagram?
We like to use these analogies but if you bring probability waves back in none of it seems to make much sense imo? How are we sure that an interaction will happen as we expect? Am I missing something?
We cannot predict how exactly the interaction occurs. That is why we on calculations we take into account all possible ways this interaction can undergo. Of course, there are less probable ways of interaction which we can omit if we do not need high precision.
Yeah, you know how you need to sum up *all* of the (infinite) possible Feynman diagrams? This is why.
Hi,Sir Arvin Ash, I, Ishfaq Baloch, from Balochistan. I'm very curious to explore the Physics world. Presently, I'm a student of BS Physics.Your Work is appropriate able which has made me able to understand the basics of physics.In fact,you make the Physics easy to understand to a common person,this the most appropriative part of your work.
Sir,Can you Make a video on the JWST and on its researchs?
Salaam, Ishfaq Anwar. A very good channel for the James Webb Space Telescope is Launchpad Astronomy: czcams.com/channels/NqNkZ7kKfqimqHkgbWMNYA.html
I make a JWST video recently here: czcams.com/video/cXGJNAz1p3E/video.html
thank you for this video and some very clear explanations of extremely difficult things!
Ma è bellissimo questo video !!
Praticamente sta descrivendo come funziona lo spazio e la gravità , chiamando gli strati con i vari nomi 😍.
Bravi!!
I didn’t really enjoy mass in school. I preferred English and PE
I liked it when we had mass class. AKA lunch!
I like how they discontinued the idea of an aether in the 20th century only to reintroduce it as basically the same thing but with a different name.
The concept of fields is not the same as the Luminiferous Aether as imagined long ago, which was a background immovable "fluid" within which things moved. That is not what quantum fields are.
Thanks for the video, if I listen to the video without watching the visuals it becomes a bit easier to understand, the more I see it the more complicated it became, for me atleast. But yes, we appreciate your hard work and efforts for spreading knowledge, who knows one day, may one of your viewers mention you while receiving a noble prize.
Great video, thank you. Very informative, I really enjoy you work