I don’t really understand what a Higgs boson is. Something about giving mass to other particles. The problem with particle physics is there are no good analogies. When things get very, very small and very, very strange we just can’t rely on experimental physicists to describe it to us. What we need is…
A high energy particle poet.
Or an artist that understands the science.
Unfortunately, that will be harder to find than the Higgs-Boson particle. We’ll have to collide an physicist and an English major with enough force to create…
The Bard Particle.
Just great, comic and blog. Maybe I was the one. ” Knowledge (gain) inversely proportional to intellectual inchings upward.” From a tortured poem.
A couple of artists who can explain this Higgs boson: Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson. See comic explanation here: http://vimeo.com/41038445