Proposal To Read And Do My Research On The Higgs Boson

This week I chose to read and do my research on the Higgs Boson. While doing my research, I realized two things. The first thing I realized is that Scientific Journals are not always written for the layman (or common folk) to read. They are written for other professionals that already know a good amount on the topic for which it is being written. For example, in The Higgs Boson by Jon Butterworth he says, “Eventually, you get the component molecules or atoms. But these can be further broken down into electrons and atomic nuclei. The nuclei can then be torn apart to reveal their constituent protons and neutrons. And inside these there are quarks. At this point, you have reached the level we regard as fundamental within the standard model, our

I am as close to being a particle physicist as I am to walking on the moon. As a result of my lacking in knowledge and inability to understand Academic Journals I turned to an unorthodox place for information. I went to Youtube.com and searched Higgs Boson. There are a surprising number of videos that discuss this topic and the one I chose to watch was a TEDx talk by Dan Hooper Ph.D. in Napperville, Illinois. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw4_9xhGzjo). In this talk he breaks down subatomic particles and how they react and have energy and mass. He describes a field in which all particle of the Universe pass and while some do not react to the field causing no mass, other particles react a great deal giving them high mass. The field is now called the Higgs field, and individual particles or smaller bits of the field are called Higgs boson. In the video Dr.Hooper says, “on one hand this represents the completion of what we call the Standard Model of Particle Physics. This is a mathematically self-consistent theory that explains all the known forms of matter and energy in the Universe and all of their interactions.” The discovery of the Higgs Field and the Higgs Boson has a great potential for the beginning of an era of discovery in physics. This research is significant to all of us because as we understand these particles and how they