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Spontaneous symmetry breaking

A good way to get an idea of what this is like is through water. Water has four different forms it could take depending on the conditions; frost, snow, ice and rime. Spontaneous symmetry breaking is sort of like this.

At the start of the big bang there was a single force which started off hot and as it expanded began to cool and in 1x10-46s (supposed to be scientific notation) gravity came into existence.

Now there is gravity and the force energy of the universe. This force energy then split into the strong nuclear force (SNF) at about 1x10-36s.

Then shorty after the massive inflation at 1x10-22s (where the universe expanded from about the size of a proton to that of a orange), the weak nuclear force and electromagnetic force (or electroweak force as we now know that they are the same) came into existence at the same time at 1x10-12s.

So from one force, in 1x10-12s all the different forces have fallen out.

In about 1x10-6 quark confinement would happen, from 3-20 minutes the nuclei would begin to form, there is still too much energy for the electrons to be bound to the nuclei. Atoms would not form for about 380,000 years.

Well this has been a brief and simple intro to spontaneous symmetry breaking, hope you guys liked it. 

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Short version of the Higgs boson and Higgs field

The Higgs boson is the theoretical particle that gives rise to the mass of fundamental particles. It does this as a field that spans across the whole of the universe and you can think of it as someone trying to walk from one side of the room but they are up to their knees in water. The more drag the particle has in the field hence the slower it moves, the more mass it has. One thing to bear in mind is that this does not explain the mass created through quark confinement which is where most of our mass comes from.

The Higgs boson is predicted to have a mass of about 125GeV and would have a spin of 0 which is what makes it a boson.

Now, we know that mass and energy are interchangeable terms, photons have 0 mass and so one would expect then to have 0 energy, but E=had allows a photon to have energy but only when it is travelling at the speed of light.

Now this has been very brief and simple and not incredibly accurate, I hope this helps some of you understand the Higgs Boson.

What Is a quantum leap?

A quantum leap is an election jumping up an energy level. When the electron jumps up - it does not exist until it reaches the next energy level. When it falls back down an energy level - it releases the energy as light.

Scientists have created a fluid with negative mass – but what does it tell us?

The fluid, which defies everyday laws of motion, is a rare achievement and provides a platform to study an otherwise hypothetical form of matter

Scientists have created a fluid that exhibits the bizarre property of “negative mass” in an experiment that appears to defy the everyday laws of motion.

Push an object and Newton’s laws (and common experience) dictate that it will accelerate in the direction in which it was shoved.

“That’s what most things that we’re used to do,” said Matthew Forbes, a physicist at Washington State University and co-author of the paper, which shows that normal intuitions do not always apply to physics experiments. “With negative mass, if you push something, it accelerates toward you.”

Negative mass has previously cropped up in speculative theories, including those suggesting the existence of wormholes, a form of cosmological shortcut between two points in the universe. Just as electric charge can be either positive or negative, matter could, hypothetically, have either positive or negative mass.

For an object with negative mass, Newton’s second law of motion, in which a force is equal to the mass of an object multiplied by its acceleration (F=ma) would be experienced in reverse.

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