Rather they are made up of gluons and quarks. As two pepped-up protons pass through each other, it’s usually pairs of massless gluons that infuse invisible fields with their combined energy and excite other particles into existence—and that includes Higgs bosons.

The Higgs boson is the fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons and quarks. A particle’s mass determines how much it resists changing its speed or position when it encounters a force. Not all fundamental particles have mass.

A boson is a particle which carries a force. It has a whole number spin (spin is a property of subatomic particles). Bosons carry energy. A photon is an example of a boson as it has a spin of 1 and carries electromagnetism. Mesons are also bosons as they carry nuclear force.

In 2012, scientists confirmed the detection of the long-sought Higgs boson, also known by its nickname the “God particle,” at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator on the planet. This particle helps give mass to all elementary particles that have mass, such as electrons and protons.

The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory. In the Standard Model, the Higgs particle is a massive scalar boson with zero spin, no electric charge, and no colour charge.

The God particle or Higgs boson particle in the Dark series appears to be a throbbing mass of black tar and inner blue light until a power source, similar to Tesla coil, is used to stabilize it creating a stable wormhole or portal through which time travel can occur to any desired date breaking the 33-year cycle.

LONDON: The elusive ‘God particle’ discovered by scientists in 2012 has the potential to destroy the universe, famed British physicist Stephen Hawking has warned. This, he said, could cause a “catastrophic vacuum decay” that would lead space and time to collapse, ‘Express.co.uk’ reported.

“We know through astro-physical observations that the universe is made up not just of standard matter but also of dark matter. Sometimes referred to as the “God particle,” the Higgs boson is unique in that physicists believe it to be responsible for giving other particles their mass.

Fastballs. “OMG” was the nickname given to the first example of what are now known as ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, detected in 1991 by the University of Utah’s Fly’s Eye cosmic ray detector. That single proton slammed into our atmosphere going roughly 99.99999999999999999999951 percent the speed of light.

It would do practically nothing. Even though it’s energy is considerable, it would still not be able to impact the real world above the atomic level. Several atoms could be ionized as a result of the particle, as it certainly possessed enough energy to affect multiple particles.

On July 4th 2012, a massive team of scientists confirmed that they had detected evidence of the Higgs field. The reporting of this event has long been a source of irritation among some groups of scientists. It was termed the “God particle” and hailed as the particle which gave all matter its mass.

A tachyon (/ˈtækiɒn/) or tachyonic particle is a hypothetical particle that always travels faster than light. Most physicists believe that faster-than-light particles cannot exist because they are not consistent with the known laws of physics.

Would a Tachyon be able to escape a Black Hole? Yes. A Black Hole has an eacape velocity of the speed of light. If our Tachyon is able to move faster than light, then it will possess the ability to escape.

Light travels approximately 1 foot per nanosecond or 186 miles per millisecond or 300,000 kilometers per second. It approaches ∞ as the speed approaches the speed of light. Nothing can move faster than the speed of light.

RHIC: A future yoctosecond light source? One yoctosecond is one trillionth of a trillionth of a second (10–24 s) and is comparable to the time it takes light to cross an atomic nucleus. Indeed, the researchers say that such pulses could be used to study the ultrafast processes taking place inside nuclei.

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