| spurgeonryan said: Yes! Humans 1/ God 0. What does all this mean? I am about as smart as a 12th grader that has been home schooled on the show Wife Swap. Is this the experiment about the big bang theory? ( Not the show) |
I'll try and explain it simply.
You know that the vast majority of space in the atoms is empty, right? If you were to condense all of the emplty space out of the atoms, you could fit the entire human race in the space of this next full stop. Roughly. If that doesn't do it for you, then imagine the nucleus of an atom (where all the mass is) is the size of a tennis ball, then the electrons around it would be about 2km away. The rest is empty space.
But what combines all of the stuff in the nuclues together? There has to be some force between them, because one is positive (protons) and the other neutral (neutrons). That's where the Higgs Boson comes in. It acts as 'glue' to 'stick' the particles together, which is what gives them their mass, shape and characteristics. It's pretty much what creates everything we see, hence it is considered the God Particle. It's actually a field called the Higgs Field, but I don't wish to complicate matters.
Uses? Who knows. But it took 3 decades to understand the Nucleus and DNA after they were found. Now look what we can do with them.
