Lawrence Krauss - Theoretical Origin of the Higgs Field

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"A remarkable cap of a fifty year intellectual journey."

Lawrence Krauss appears briefly in the following video, in a Q&A session, giving the most clear and concise explanation I've yet heard geared at a general audience for why the Higgs field was proposed (leading to the search for the Higgs boson.)

Segment occurs from 6:10 - 14:45:

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Here's a more detailed 50 minute treatment of the above, beginning with Galileo and Faraday's discoveries and building up through Maxwell, Einstein, Feynman, etc. to explain layer by layer how theory confirmed by experiment drove physicists eventually to propose the Higgs field:

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Had a couple mind=blown moments during this talk (...at any given moment we're perceiving a three-dimensional slice of a 4D world, etc.)

[haunted]

I'll definitely have to check these videos out when I'm less busy; michael faraday and james maxwell were the two most crucial dudes with electricity and magnetism no doubt.

[[BTF] Reflex]

The Name Faraday comes into my head on a daily basis..

I see faraday waves at my work all the time, probably the only one there to take a second here and there to admire them.

[bluemeanies]

I've perceived this "4D world" before...

"Are you experienced..."

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http://www.azpbs.org/arizonahorizon/detailvid.php?id=14580  <- informative/intriguing new lawrence krauss interview (first 15 min. of video) ... discussing the latest findings on the higgs boson, and new physics that might be implied

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http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/10168  <- conversation between Lawrence Krauss and an acquaintance who is a deist (but the sort who embraces science) about the Higgs field & particle... most detailed explanation-for-laymen i've heard yet