EP: 85 CERN with Josh Peck
Blurry Creatures
The Physics of Particles
What we think of as particles is actually not, it's not exactly real. A field is what produces a particle or this energy spike. In 2012, the discovery of the Higgs boson was such big news because it showed that there's this thing called a Higgs field. The more you interact with this Higgs field that is all around us, the more you move through it,. That's why photons travel at the speed they do and why they have no mass.
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