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Now, we live in an age where multi-billion-dollar pieces of machinery are looking for the Higgs boson.
And in fact, here's an example: the Higgs boson, finding the Higgs boson.
Ask the next 10 people you see on the streets, "Hey, do you think it's worthwhile to spend billions of Swiss francs looking for the Higgs boson?"
And I bet the answer you're going to get, is, "Well, I don't know what the Higgs boson is, and I don't know if it's important."
The highlight of 2012, so clearly, was the discovery of the Higgs boson.
So last year, on the Fourth of July, experiments at the Large Hadron Collider discovered the Higgs boson.
There's no doubt that from now on, the Fourth of July will be remembered not as the day of the Declaration of Independence, but as the day of the discovery of the Higgs boson.
In the eye of a theoretical physicist, the Higgs boson is a clever explanation of how some elementary particles gain mass, but it seems a fairly unsatisfactory and incomplete solution.
The Higgs boson does not share the beauty, the symmetry, the elegance, of the rest of the elementary particle world.
For this reason, the majority of theoretical physicists believe that the Higgs boson could not be the full story.
We were expecting new particles and new phenomena accompanying the Higgs boson.
But for the moment, since we have found no evidence for new phenomena, let us suppose that the particles that we know today, including the Higgs boson, are the only elementary particles in nature, even at energies much larger than what we have explored so far.
And this intrinsic energy is what we call the mass of a particle, and by discovering the Higgs boson, the LHC has conclusively proved that this substance is real, because it is the stuff the Higgs bosons are made of.
And the crucial ingredient necessary to answer this question is the Higgs boson mass.
And experiments at the LHC found that the mass of the Higgs boson is about 126 GeV.
Our calculations showed that the measured value of the Higgs boson mass is very special.
But the reason why I am interested in the transition of the Higgs field is because I want to address the question, why is the Higgs boson mass so special?
And something similar could happen for the Higgs boson mass in the multiverse.
Just one number, the Higgs boson mass, and yet, out of this number we learn so much.
As of July 4, 2012, the Higgs boson is the last fundamental piece of the standard model of particle physics to be discovered experimentally.
But, you might ask, why was the Higgs boson included in the standard model, alongside well-known particles like electrons and photons and quarks, if it hadn't been discovered back then in the 1970s?
First, just like the electron is an excitation in the electron field, the Higgs boson is simply a particle which is an excitation of the everywhere-permeating Higgs field.
On July 4, 2012, physicists at CERN announced to the world that they'd spotted a new fundamental particle being created at the violent collisions at the LHC: the Higgs boson.
Well, that is kind of true, but the Higgs boson is particularly special.
I'm not going to go into the details of these ideas now, but the key point is this: if any of them explained this weirdly fine-tuned value of the Higgs field, then we should see new particles being created at the LHC along with the Higgs boson.
But despite high hopes, the LHC revealed a barren subatomic wilderness populated only by a lonely Higgs boson.
But if, in two or three years' time, when the LHC switches off again for a second long shutdown, we've found nothing but the Higgs boson, then we may be entering a new era in physics: an era where there are weird features of the universe that we cannot explain; an era where we have hints that we live in a multiverse that lies frustratingly forever beyond our reach; an era where we will never be able to answer the question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
What they're really planning to do is to build a machine that will study the Higgs boson in detail and could give us some clues as to whether these new ideas, like supersymmetry, are really out there, so it's great news for physics, I think.
People said it reminded them of the little bump that was shown on the way toward the Higgs boson discovery.
The final particle of the Standard Model is the Higgs boson – a quantum ripple in the background energy field of the universe.