https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/16f9f3ee-4a0f-414d-9a4f-ecc5712555b1 The God Damn Particle — Part IIn 2013, François Englert and Peter Higgs received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the Anderson–Brout–Englert–Higgs–Guralnik–Hagen–Kibble mechanism. As Steven Weinberg put it, "More people deserve the Nobel Prize than get it." The discovery of the Higgs mechanism was driven by the desire to unify two fundamentally different forces of nature — the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force — which act over very different ranges. Finding the Higgs particle became one of the largest and most expensive experiments humankind has ever undertaken. In this first of a three-part presentation, I describe how the presence of the Higgs field hides the fundamental similarity between the electromagnetic and weak forces, and explain why such a particle must exist in our description of the fundamental laws of nature. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:20:32 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tilvids.com https://tilvids.com/lazy-static/avatars/a8b2efbf-2a14-445c-a432-b4ebcf28cb7d.png https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/16f9f3ee-4a0f-414d-9a4f-ecc5712555b1 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tilvids.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.