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| ====== Vacuum and the Nature of Mass -- April 9, 2007 ====== | ====== Vacuum and the Nature of Mass ====== |
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| | <wrap lo>Monday April 9, 2007</wrap> |
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| I heard a [[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9433495|fascinating story]] on NPR this morning, a story describing the “Large Hadron Collider” (an underground ring of superconducting magnets, designed to study subatomic particle collisions). This story happened to include a very interesting, albeit brief, description of mass. Mass has been well described in terms of its effects, but its difficult to find an adequate description of what mass actually is. In this story, mass is described as a property of a vacuum that forms a kind of “stickiness”, grabbing hold of all matter within the vacuum; this property is called the Higgs field. | I heard a [[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9433495|fascinating story]] on NPR this morning, a story describing the “Large Hadron Collider” (an underground ring of superconducting magnets, designed to study subatomic particle collisions). This story happened to include a very interesting, albeit brief, description of mass. Mass has been well described in terms of its effects, but its difficult to find an adequate description of what mass actually is. In this story, mass is described as a property of a vacuum that forms a kind of “stickiness”, grabbing hold of all matter within the vacuum; this property is called the Higgs field. |