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Your Mass is NOT from Higgs Boson
The Higgs Boson is awesome but it’s NOT responsible for most of your mass!
The Higgs mechanism is meant to account for the mass of everything, right? Well no, only the fundamental particles, which means that electrons derive their mass entirely from the Higgs interaction but protons and neutrons, made of quarks, do not. In fact the quark masses are so small that they only make up about 1% of the mass of the proton (and a similar fraction of the neutron). The rest of the mass comes from the energy in the gluon field. Gluons are massless, but there is so much energy in the field that by E=mc^2 there is a significant amount of mass there. This is where most of your mass comes from and the mass of virtually everything around you.
Thanks to Professor Derek Leinweber for his great images, animations and explanations. Check out his site to find out more: http://bit.ly/ZZTKFP
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"The constants of nature happen to allow us to exists. That’s not so surprising. What would be more surprising would be if they didn’t but we existed anyway."
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Must Watch: Neil deGrasse Tyson Moderates a Debate on Nothingness
Its been said that something cannot come from nothing, but is “nothing” even conceivable?
If you’ve got two hours to kill on nothing, this is the video for you.
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A video that everyone should see in view of the amount of bullshit you hear on “parallel universes”. In brief: no experimental support and Physics is not Philosophy. Thanks again to MinutePhysics.
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High ResolutionSIXTY SYMBOLS - short videos explaining the symbols in physics and astronomy.
Learn about the meanings and origins of all those symbols.
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Sean Carroll - Origin of the Universe & the Arrow of Time
What is Time?
What is Entropy?
Why does it only move in one direction?
What happened before the Big Bang?
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What “time” actually is.
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Immovable Object vs Unstoppable Force
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny… also, Tshirts!http://www.dftba.com/minutephysics
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Thanks to Nima Doroud for contributions and to Perimeter Institute for support.
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Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson (Discuss) - The Poetry of Science
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High ResolutionFollow this little Feynman Factoid up with TED Ed’s animated video about just how small an atom really is.
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High ResolutionThe world can be a very different place, and what’s impossible to one may be possible to another, depending on how you look at it.
Click through to Hyperphysics, an amazing educational website by Georgia State University. It’s the most straight forward and accessible physics reference I’ve ever seen.
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Theory of everything says universe is a transformer - physics-math - 06 November 2012 - New Scientist
See on Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future
Solving the mysteries of the universe is usually about finding the best answer to a question. But what if we are not even asking the right questions?
A pioneer in quantum computation, University of Oxford physicist and best-selling author David Deutsch has spent most of his career working towards a new way of asking questions about the universe. Deutsch’s vision for this “theory of everything” ties together ideas in cosmology, computation, philosophy and evolution to describe the nature of reality.
It has been suggested that his long-awaited theory could account for several fundamental mysteries, such as why time flows in only one direction – a property that is not required by most physical laws. Now Deutsch has posted a taste of the form his theory might take, opening the door to what may become a new branch of physics.
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Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll uses science to explore the nature of humanity.
He explains that Quantum Field Theory tells us that there are no unaccounted for forces of nature that are relative to our macro realm of existence. This means no spirit force or afterlife, no telekenesis and no inherent purpose in the universe.
So, where is the Meaning in a purely material world governed by 4 forces of nature the laws of motion?
Live on stage at TAM 2012.
Divine Irony
is a rich archive of religious delusions, scientific truths and political implications.
"Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."
-George Carlin
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed”.
-Albert Einstein
