Word: masse
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...weekend that saw about a 35% jump in ticket sales from last Easter, the mass audience gifted the new releases with nice, colorful eggs. One-man indie conglomerate writer-director-star Tyler Perry reunited with Janet Jackson for Why Did I Get Married Too, which pulled in $30.2 million - far above the three-day tally for the 2007 original. This is the fourth $30 million-plus opening for a Perry movie, though the revenue usually drops quickly in succeeding weeks. (His last four films earned at least 45% of their total take in the first three days.) Spending just...
...first and most important order of business is to prove (or disprove) the existence of a single particle known as the Higgs boson - a speck so precious that it has come to be called the "God particle," a reference to the theory that Higgs gives mass to all matter in the cosmos...
...major breakthrough in that effort came in 1964, when Peter Higgs, a shy British scientist in Edinburgh, introduced a theory that could explain how particles that carry two of the four forces - those that carry the electromagnetic force, and those that carry the weak force - came to have different masses as the universe cooled (in the moment after the Big Bang, of course, nothing had mass, existing instead in a sort of naked, ethereal beauty). Extrapolating from Higgs' theory, scientists were able to explain how all particles get their mass - which would explain, in turn, how everything in the universe...
...works like this: Across the post-Big Bang universe, collections of Higgs bosons make up a pervasive Higgs field - which is theoretically where particles get mass. Moving particles through a Higgs field is like pulling a weightless pearl necklace through a jar of honey, except imagine that the honey is everywhere and the interaction is continuous. Some particles, such as photons, which are weightless particles of light, are able to cut through the sticky Higgs field without picking up mass. Other particles get bogged down, accumulating mass and becoming very heavy. Which is to say that even though the universe...
...closer to the high energy that existed after the Big Bang. And high energies are needed, because the Higgs is thought to be quite heavy. (In Einstein's famous equation E=MC2, C represents the speed of light, which is constant; so in order to find high-mass particles, or M, you need high energies, E.) It's possible, of course, that even at such high energies, the Higgs boson will not be found. It may not exist...