Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 16, 2012
July 15, 2012
July 17, 2012
Transcript:
Arlo: I don't pretend to understand it, but it's apparently a big deal! Arlo: It's supposed to explain how matter is created! Arlo: It could be the reason we have mass and weight! Janis: How many Higgs bosons are in a slice of chocolate cake? Arlo: A lot.
Actually it’s the Higgs field, theorized to exist at every point throughout the universe, which gives particles mass in proportion to their interaction with that field. The Higgs boson is simply the smallest quantum of excitation of that field.
Finding the boson proves the existence of the field though, so as Arlo so aptly put it, it’s a Big Deal.
Janis is just pulling his leg, though. Pretty funny, Mrs. Day!