WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The 2013 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday (Oct. 8) was awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their work in developing the theory of the Higgs field, and Purdue ...

Physicists hope to find the Higgs boson, key to a unified field theory, this year after a long hunt. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

So we don’t really know what this new material ether is. We know its name: the Higgs condensate [or Higgs field], after Peter Higgs, a Scots physicist who pioneered some of these ideas. The simplest ...

There are currently two pieces of evidence that a Higgs boson does exist. The first is indirect. According to quantum field theory, all particles spend a little time as combinations of all other ...

The Higgs boson is the fundamental force-carrying particle of the Higgs field, ... Peter Higgs and François Englert were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, for their Higgs field theory.

What is the Higgs field and why is it a fundamental part of our universe? Quantum Field Theory is generally accepted as an accurate description of the subatomic universe. However until recently ...

There’s a big difference between the mass of a top quark, the heaviest fundamental particle discovered so far, and the mass of an electron, one of the lightest. To get their differing masses, ...

The Higgs field, which permeates the universe, is not believed to be in its lowest possible energy state. This means that it has the potential to transition to a lower energy state in a specific ...

The universe has always seemed like a grand, unstoppable machine. From theories such as the Big Crunch to the long, cold ...

To form a bubble, the Higgs field needs a good reason. Due to quantum mechanics, the theory which governs the microcosmos of atoms and particles, the energy of the Higgs is always fluctuating.