When axions strike

• Autores: Jon Cartwright
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3047, 2015, págs. 36-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Cartwright details how a 40-year-old idea is on course to knock down three of the biggest mysteries in physics at once. To most people the mass of an eyelash seems like just about nothing. But to a Higgs boson--the particle believed to endow all others with their mass--it might as well weigh a tonne. The mass of the Higgs has a bearing on all the other particles that make up reality, and if it were as large as an eyelash the world would look very different. The electrons buzzing inside one's computer's circuits would be as weighty as the dust coating the top of it. If the dust bulked up on the same scale, each speck would have roughly the mass of a well-fed elephant.