The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?
上帝粒子：假如宇宙是答案，究竟問題是什麼？
Leon Lederman and Dick Teresi, 1993
HLC Book introduction
– by Mr David Chan, Sept 2012
Higgs
Higgs-like
Particle Discovered!
On July 4, 2012, CERN* announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle that's
consistent with the Higgs boson – a particle that's been searched for since the 1970s.
Whether it's the Higgs or something that closely resembles
resembles it, a new particle
pa
is a
historic discovery.
Why is it “Higgs-LIKE” particle in the press article above??
investigation is done.
This refers to how scientific
“The
The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN presented their
latest results in the search for the long-sought Higgs boson.
Both experiments see
strong indications for the presence of a new particle, which could be the Higgs
boson, in the mass region around 126 gigaelectronvolts (GeV*).”
(GeV ” The fact is scientists
find sufficient evidence only on a kind of possibly existing particle of the mass predicted by the
theory of Higgs boson, a particle of the origin of mass of all matters in the universe theoretically.
So what is “Higgs boson”? What is “boson”? Why the Higgs kind so special? Like many
physicall science books, the book being introduced will show readers briefly from the basic idea in
physics to the “Standard Model” of particles. The
he missing piece of elementary particles
particle yet to
discover is the source of mass of all beings. The discovery, which might be worth Nobel Prize in
near future, will probably reveal new ideas about the origin of the universe.
The book is subtitled: “If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?” Some religions and
believes probably regard this to their gods or philosophy as the first cause of everything in the
world, which coincides with the name of the book. Unfortunately, the name “God Particle” is not
the will of the Nobel Prize-winning
winning (in 1988 for joint research on neutrinos) physicist author
Lederman.
Look for that in the Google Book online, it’s free!
And God said,
said “Let there be light” and there was light. (Genesis 1:3)
神說：
「要有光，」就有了
了光。
（創世紀 1:3）
* CERN: The
he European Organization for Nuclear Research. The acronym originally stood in
French for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire,
Nucléaire, or in English for European Council for
Nuclear Research. CERN is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's
largest particle physics laboratory.
laboratory It is established in 1954 based in the northwest
nort
suburbs of
Geneva on the Franco–Swiss
Swiss border.
* Mass unit: 1 GeV = 109 eV;; c.f. mass of electron = 511 keV (1 keV = 103 eV)