Looking for a Christian or not physicist to talk to
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Shiner
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Looking for a Christian or not physicist to talk to
I'm new to this topic and would like to pick the brains of someone who understands the math....
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Re: Looking for a Christian or not physicist to talk to
Shiner,
The way it usually works here, is you ask a question or create a thread about a topic you want to discuss. Do you have a specific "God and Science" question that you want to ask?
The way it usually works here, is you ask a question or create a thread about a topic you want to discuss. Do you have a specific "God and Science" question that you want to ask?
John 5:24
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
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Re: Looking for a Christian or not physicist to talk to
Thanks Rick I was wonder about the Higgs field, has science figured out how the Higgs field knows to determines how much mass each particle should have and does this field cover the entire Universe? Thanks for taking the time to help a new guy out
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Re: Looking for a Christian or not physicist to talk to
Shiner, maybe Hana can help you with this. Hana, screen name "1over137" is our resident genius/physicist.Shiner wrote:Thanks Rick I was wonder about the Higgs field, has science figured out how the Higgs field knows to determines how much mass each particle should have and does this field cover the entire Universe? Thanks for taking the time to help a new guy out
John 5:24
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
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Re: Looking for a Christian or not physicist to talk to
Higgs field is present everywhere.
The value of the mass of certain particle depends on how strongly the particle interacts with the Higgs field. The more it interacts, the heavier it becomes, whereas particles that never interact are left with no mass at all. Also, mass is a manifestation of potential energy transferred to the particle during interactions ("coupling") with the Higgs field, which had contained that mass in the form of energy. (Recall that energy is connected to mass via E=mc^2)
How strongly each fermion (quark, electron, muon, tau lepton) interacts with the Higgs field is (in the present theory of particles called Standard Model) an input parameter. The interaction term is called Yukawa coupling.
Interaction of the weak gauge bosons, the W and Z, with the Higgs field is not arbitrary. There is a fundamental principle in particle physics called 'local gauge invariance' that influences the interaction term with the Higgs field. Interestingly, the ratio of the W and Z masses, mW/mZ is fixed and equals to cosine of an angle called weak mixing angle.
Great article for general audience here: http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-a ... s-faq-2-0/
P.S.: Well, I am physicist, but Christian also.
The value of the mass of certain particle depends on how strongly the particle interacts with the Higgs field. The more it interacts, the heavier it becomes, whereas particles that never interact are left with no mass at all. Also, mass is a manifestation of potential energy transferred to the particle during interactions ("coupling") with the Higgs field, which had contained that mass in the form of energy. (Recall that energy is connected to mass via E=mc^2)
How strongly each fermion (quark, electron, muon, tau lepton) interacts with the Higgs field is (in the present theory of particles called Standard Model) an input parameter. The interaction term is called Yukawa coupling.
Interaction of the weak gauge bosons, the W and Z, with the Higgs field is not arbitrary. There is a fundamental principle in particle physics called 'local gauge invariance' that influences the interaction term with the Higgs field. Interestingly, the ratio of the W and Z masses, mW/mZ is fixed and equals to cosine of an angle called weak mixing angle.
Great article for general audience here: http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-a ... s-faq-2-0/
P.S.: Well, I am physicist, but Christian also.
But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good.
-- 1 Thessalonians 5:21
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
-- Philippians 1:6
#foreverinmyheart
-- 1 Thessalonians 5:21
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
-- Philippians 1:6
#foreverinmyheart