Peter Higgs and Francois Englert have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the theory of what came to be known as the Higgs boson.
A Higgs particle is a boson with no spin, electric charge, or colour charge. It is also very unstable, decaying into other particles almost immediately after it pops into existence. Which is why it has taken so long to prove there is such a thing and probably the raison d’être for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
So what has this got to do with photography – nothing really, it’s just a passing interest that I have for Quantum Mechanics 🙂
This is a very good easy understanding of what all the fuss is about (A Video by CERN).
David A Lockwood 
It is a great pleasure, now and then, to learn about the unseen.
Yes and being able to see the results of what until now, were only mathematical complexities.
David.
Interesting theory!! Strange how many photographers are from a science background or interesting in science.
Theory yes, but it’s the closest so far for an understanding of what’s going on.
As to the other point, I could say it is all that messing around with chemicals, but this is getting less so now.
David.
Ps. tentatively confirmed to exist on 14 March 2013. 🙂
Ok, I’ll need to watch the video again..and again for things to sink in. Thank you so much for posting it David.
Thanks,
Yes it makes one think of mass and E=mc2 in whole different light (excuse the pun) mass to kinetic energy and back again.
Fascinating stuff.
David.
i agree with you
Hi,
Yes, an uncomplicated explanation 🙂
David.