BASICALLY, THIS BLOG IS ABOUT THE SO-CALLED TERM “GOD PARTICLE”. BUT WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GOD PARTICLE? DOES IT EXIST AROUND US OR IS MADE BY SOMEONE?
WELL, GOD PARTICLE IS ACTUALLY A “HIGGS BOSON PARTICLE”. IN FACT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TERM GOD. THEN WHY DO PEOPLE CALL IT AS GOD PARTICLE ? HENCE THE ANSWER IS A SILLY ONE.
IN 1993 WHEN THE AMERICAN PHYSICIST LEON LEDERMAN WAS WRITING A BOOK ABOUT A HIGGS BOSON PARTICLE HE EXAGGERATED IT AS “THE GOD DAMN PARTICLE” AS THIS PARTICLE IS ACTUALLY MIND-BLOWING AND SURPRISING TOO. BUT AN EDITOR AS WELL AS PUBLISHERS DIDN’T LET HIM PUBLISH THIS “GOD DAMN” WORD SO HE CHANGED IT INTO A “GOD PARTICLE”.
BUT IN FACT MANY SCIENTIST INCLUDING ‘PETER HIGGS’ HIMSELF, FROM WHOM THIS PARTICLE IS NAMED AFTER, DISLIKED THIS NAME. BUT I THINK IT’S NECESSARY TO KNOW THE EXACT REASON OF SOMETHING BEFORE YOU BELIEVE IN IT. SO I THOUGHT THIS TOPIC SHOULD BE EXPRESSED.
SO, MOVING BACK TO THIS GOD DAMN PARTICLE, THIS PARTICLE EXPLAINS HOW WE GOT OUR MASS IN OUR BODY OR HOW HUGE PLANETS GOT THEIR MASS FROM?
IMAGINE YOU ARE SLIDING OVER A HILL OF A SNOW. YOU ARE SET TO TAKE A SLIDE DOWN THE HILL. AND NOW YOU START MOVING DOWN, BUT WHEN YOU REACH AT THE END OF A HILL. YOU FOUND THAT YOU HAD SOME ICE IN YOUR BOOTS NOW, AND SO YOUR SOCKS ARE WET TOO. AS YOU WALK FURTHER, YOU START FEELING HEAVIER TO STEP FORWARD AS YOU APPARENTLY GET READY FOR YOUR MOMS SCOLDING.
EXACTLY LIKE THAT, JUST AFTER THE BIG BANG HAPPENED (THAT IS AFTER THE BIRTH OF OUR UNIVERSE) LOTS OF PHOTONS GOT RELEASED, WHEN THIS MASSLESS PARTICLE IN SPACE MOVED FROM A PARTICULAR FIELD, IT CARRIES SOMETHING WITH IT THAT GIVES THAT PARTICLE SOME MASS AND THAT FIELD IS CALLED A HIGGS FIELD.
