Particle Theory

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded to scientists Francois Englert & Peter W. Higgs for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism  that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, also known as 'The discovery of the God Particle'.

By allowing us the understanding of creation; we have better understanding of the building blocks that is our universe and how it has evolved over 380,000 Light years,

The discovery was made possible through CERN's  Large Hadron Collider (LHC). 

 

To learn more click on the links above, it’s a rather elaborate explanation; even in a brief overview the process is a succession of details.

Besides looking up answers on-line or through Wikipedia, Stories regarding the LHC has been offered in the entertainment world.  The best depiction of CERN is from Author Dan Brown and his book turned movie, 'Angels & Demons', it’s a detective story where antimatter was stolen from CERN. The story offers a little bit of true insight of CERN's research and some of their history, to clarify one detail, CERN did not create the internet, but a small team at CERN helped in the creation of the Web. And regards to the payload of Antimatter being produced, it’s not enough to create a devastating bomb.

 

 

Another film that briefly touches on the search for the god particle is another detective story called the Big Bang, starring Antonio Banderas.  In this movie an eccentric billionaire played by Sam Elliott searches for the God Particle and has created his own make shift version of the LHC.  The movie concludes with him actively pursuing the experiment of colliding a beam of particles. Or in the characters own words "recreating the exact situation in which the universe may have formed".  The DVD commentary was interesting; it provided insight of the story, and how they got to the point of bringing it to the screen.

 

 

 

 

Due to science of what CERN performs and the approach of defining measurements; below is Short Film Documentary called Powers of Ten, in which the universe is scaled in aerial images of the magnitude of 10.  It sets the stage of how we should perceive the universe and particle theory.