'God particle' scientists win Nobel Physics Prize

Google – AFP, 8 October 2013

British physicist Peter Higgs (R) speaks with Belgium physicist Francois Englert 

at a press conference on July 4, 2012 at the European Organization for Nuclear

Research (CERN) offices in Meyrin near Geneva (AFP/File, Fabrice Coffrini)

Stockholm — Peter Higgs of Britain and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for conceiving of the so-called "God particle" which confers mass.

Higgs, 84, and Englert, 80, were honoured for theorising a particle -- discovered last year after an agonising quest -- that explains why the Universe has any substance at all.

"This particle originates from an invisible field that fills up all space. Even when the Universe seems empty this field is there," the jury said in a statement.

"Without it, we would not exist, because it is from contact with the field that particles acquire mass."

Shortly after the announcement, the University of Edinburgh posted a statement from Higgs saying he was "overwhelmed" by the honour.

"I would also like to congratulate all those who have contributed to the discovery of this new particle and to thank my family, friends and colleagues for their support," Higgs said.

"I hope this recognition of fundamental science will help raise awareness of the value of blue-sky research."

Englert told AFP in a brief comment: "I'm very happy to have received the prize."

The Nobel Prize for Physics (AFP, Sophie Ramis)

Known as a boson, the discovery was popularly dubbed the "God Particle" on the grounds that it is everywhere yet baffingly elusive to find.

Without it, say theorists, we and all the other joined-up atoms in the Universe would not exist.

The presumed particle was discovered last year by Europe's mega-scale physics lab at CERN, near Geneva, after a decades-long search.

"As an achievement, it ranks alongside the confirmation that the Earth is round or Man's first steps on the Moon," Canadian particle physicist Pauline Gagnon told AFP.

Higgs and Englert, at the Free University of Brussels, were honoured for "the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles," the jury said in its formal citation.

The duo received the world's most prestigious award for excellence in physics nearly a half century after they and others set down the theoretical groundwork.

The history of the discovery dates back to 1964, when six physicists, working independently in three groups, published a flurry of papers.

The first were Belgians Robert Brout, who died in 2011, and Englert, who proposed a mechanism by which a mass-giving field of particles invaded the early Universe, which until then was filled only with massless particles.

(L-R) Gunnar Ingelman, Staffan Normark and Olga Botner give a press conference

 to announce the laureates of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 8, 2013

 at the Nobel Assembly at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm

(AFP, Jonathan Nackstrand)

This was followed by Higgs, who was the first to suggest that mass could only occur through the existence of a hitherto unknown particle.

Because of this, the particle has been named after him, although Higgs has always been swift to acknowledge vital contributions from others.

At the heart of the search for the "Higgs," was a drive to fill the so-called Standard Model, a conceptual framework of the fundamental particles of matter.

The model, designed in the 1970s, failed to explain why some particles have substance, and others, such as light, have none.

The answer, according to the theories, lies in an invisible field of bosons, or force carriers, that was created after the Big Bang.

Fundamental particles travel through this field. Some interact with the Higgs to a greater or lesser degree, which thus confers mass, while others do not.

On July 4 last year, physicists at CERN announced to rousing applause that they had found an elementary particle "consistent with" the Higgs boson.

In this photo taken on July 19, 2013 a worker stands below the Compact Muon

 Solenoid (CMS), a general-purpose detector at the European Organisation for

Nuclear Research (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), in Meyrin, near Geneva

(AFP/File, Fabrice Coffrini)

CERN Director General Rolf Heuer, in a statement on Tuesday, gave the biggest sign yet that the presumed particle is indeed the right one.

?The discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN last year, which validates the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism, marks the culmination of decades of intellectual effort by many people around the world,? he said.

In line with tradition, the laureates will receive their prize at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.

The pair will share the prize sum of eight million Swedish kronor ($1.25 million, 925,000 euros), reduced because of the economic crisis last year from the 10 million kronor awarded since 2001.

British physicist Peter Higgs, for whom the boson is named, on July 4, 2012

at CERN in Meyrin, near Geneva (Pool/AFP/File, Denis Balibouse)

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“ … Physicists say that electrons spin. They don't, and they can't. There's no surface on an electron, since they are energy. They don't spin, but instead have an electronic potential. Every single particle on this planet, everything you can see, all things in this Universe, are created with polarity. This is new information now. All things are created with polarity, and they're designed to be self-balancing. And because of the polarity of what you would call plus and minus, they move and try to balance themselves within a field - all things, both physical and other.

However, all polarities are prone to be biased by what I will call peer pressure. Electrons that carry (or spin with a polarity) of what you would call a certain kind of charge - we'll call it positive - are drawn to those that are negative so that they will null themselves out. They seek each other out to create the null of balance. They seek to be balanced, and if they are not, they are not happy. I use this word only to emphasize the condition of a particle of physics that does not find its balance. Even the unscientific can appreciate this.

But even with atoms, there are not always matched pairs of electrons, since there is no atomic rule that says that electrons will always be created in even numbers. So there will often be what I will call the odd one out and when that happens, the entire atom will then be charged positively or negatively, depending upon the odd one out. When this happens, this atom will seek out another atom, which has an odd one out of an opposite charge. That has a name: Magnetism. I've just explained magnetism. Now, science knows part of that already. What they have not realized yet, however, is that all things have a duality. They suspect it and there are theories that will show it soon enough, and I've given it to you today because it always has existed in someone's mind.

So from the very smallest to the very biggest, even the galaxy has duality. At the center of your galaxy, what you call the black hole, is a quantum push/pull engine, and I'm going to tell you in a minute why it's that way.

Here is a big question, and I will answer it right now. Why does everything have a polarity? Why would it be created this way, even down to the electron? The smallest thing, even to what you call the Higgs Bosen [God Particle] and the quarks, they all have polarity. There isn't a piece of nature that you're going to find that doesn't have polarity. Why? I will tell you why: Physicists will laugh. Not in ridicule, but in agreement. If it were not this way, the Universe would be a dull, boring place to be. Because, by creating a duality in every single particle, you create an active Universe that is self-balancing and is never at rest. If it were not this way, it would be static, unchanging, and non-creative. Therefore, without polarity, there would be no life. Life is created by having a duality, a polarity in atomic particles. Life is that which is necessary for the Universe to exist. There's no reason for physics without life - and you thought it was the other way around, didn't you? Life was an accident on one planet. Oh, how 3D of you! Life is the DESIGN..…”

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