Talk:Higgs Boson

The abbreviation "CERN" should be clarified and probably linked in its first mentioning. 98.204.70.68 (talk) 04:19, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

You're right - I added a brief explanation, but it may be too complex. A Clockwork Orange (talk) 05:38, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Confusing...

Perhaps it's just me but... On one hand we have: "Higgs bosons obey the conservation of energy law, which states that no energy is created or destroyed, but instead it is transferred." and "Since the amount of mass-energy created by the Higgs field is equal to the amount of kinetic-energy that the gauge boson lost by being slowed, energy is conserved."

On the other we have: "These particles are believed to exist for less than a septillionth of a second." My question is what happens to them. They can't stop existing without tranferring energy or they break the first statement. Perhaps as the cease to exits they do release energy but that wasn't stated and "Other elementary particles obtain an effective mass through the continuous interaction with this (Higgs) field. " implies (in my mind) that perhaps that is what happens as it decays.

I know my limits and maybe this is too complicated for me to understand but if you can describe what happens to the mass/energy of the higgs field/boson after the septillionth of a second I'd appreciate it.

Thanks, -Rick

Not Simple

This does not use Simple English. The words "tentative" and "transferred" are not Simple English. Many words in this article are too confusing for a foreigner. Kupiakos (talk) 22:24, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Higgs Boson for Dummies

A combination of simple descriptions of the Higgs Boson suggests this scenario? A Higgs Boson is an electron pair, a positive and negative electron attracting each other, rotating around each other like a binary star. The charges cancel each other to a neutral charge. This makes it 'Dark' as it is difficult to see because our instrumentation can't see neutral charges. 30% of the universe by weight is comprised of Dark Energy/Matter in the form of paired electrons.

Dennis Clifford Lee