Physicists capture Higgs boson decay

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A single subatomic particle weighing as much as 130 protons, the Higgs lasts for a mere 10-trillionths of a nanosecond before it decays into less massive particles. Now, physicists have spotted the Higgs decaying into a particle called a bottom quark and its antimatter counterpart, an antibottom quark, (illustrated above) researchers working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, reported today.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018...s-spot-higgs-boson-decaying-most-ordinary-way
 

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What does this mean?
 

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What does this mean?

Dear Ron,

In a nutshell the HB is decaying (like milk curdling) into two very common sub atomic opposite pairs.

The emphasis on the commonality of said pairs.

When most studied either covalent or ionic bonding atomic masses were given as static and proprietary,they are neither.

Proton,neutron and electron are all interchangeable mass and charge particles.

The Higgs Boson field is the carousel that imparts the mass and charge to each and can be described as a quark "bridge".

Higgs predicted that there must be such an entity in order to balance,prior to super symmetry,the sub atomic quantum world.

The QED normality of bottom quark pairs has got some of the theoretical physicists in a twist because they are searching for atypical results.

The Einstein fallacy is influential to this approach;Bell settled the dispute in the seventies and here we are.

Kindest regards,G.
 
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At a very basic level, it strengthens the Standard Model even more. Equally fascinating is the amount of time the Higgs exists before the decay, one septillionth of a second.
 

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I've spent few more hours reading more about Higgs boson decay.

I admit, it is mind boggling. The speed as ack emphasized, is impossible to record with the best camera.
How the universe was created will probably continue to elude the best scientific physicists for the next few billion years and beyond.

* General, I enjoyed reading your "in-a-nutshell" explanation. :b

Cheers,
 

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Dear Sir,

You are welcome,as an aside try inputting data into the Lagrangian function and see if you can notice a numerical pattern?

Kindest regards,G.
 

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