Milan EXPO 2015
Video Collection on Social-Media of this year's Milan Expo 15 ::: Enjoy =)
MILAN 2015 - The City of Future from NotWorkingFilms on Vimeo.
Milan 2015 - The City of Future
A video by: Fabio Palmieri
Music by: Isan - Remigo
Final Quote: Albert Einstein
Exploring Milan's architecture with a Canon 5Dmk3 - RAW - Expo 2015
* No CG added
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DIVERSITY, Japan Pavilion, Expo Milano 2015 from teamLab on Vimeo.
Japan, a country surrounded by mountains and the sea, undergoes many changes with the passing of the four seasons. Rivers go through great changes in terms of the volume of water that passes through them, from the melting snow in the spring to the rainy season and typhoon season. In Japan, the distance between the mountains and the coast is very short, with very few plains along the way, causing many short fast-flowing streams to form throughout the islands.
This art installation uses waterfalls to represent water, a symbol that is at the heart of Japan’s food culture.
This artwork seeks to convey large volumes of information related to the great diversity found in Japanese food. In order to achieve this, it shows a gigantic waterfall that can be viewed from all around 360 degrees, displaying a large quantity of images of food.
Visitors can touch the images that flow down the waterfall to read in the image, as well as some detailed information, into their smartphones, so they can take them home with them afterward.
This art installation tackles the challenge of making sure that people can share their emotions and experiences, while offering the convenience of providing large amounts of information. teamLab achieves this by creating a symbolic waterfall that allows many visitors to share the same experience within the same space, and by giving them the ability to link this experience with their own personal smartphones.
http://www.team-lab.net/en/all/other/diversity.html
食の多様性という大量の情報を来場者に伝える。そのために、デジタルテクノロジーを使い、食に関連する大量のコンテンツの画像を、360度どこからでも鑑賞できる巨大な映像の滝に流すことよって、食の多様性（DIVERSITY）を表現しました。
食の源である水を、そして、山と海に囲まれた日本の水を、象徴的に、滝で表現しています。来場者は、流れてきた画像にタッチすることで、瞬間的に、画像と詳細の情報が自分のスマートフォンへと取り込み、持ち帰ることができます。
同じ空間にいる来場者が体感を共有できるアートと、個人が持つスマートフォンを繋げることによって、感動と、大量の情報に対する利便性を共存させるチャレンジを行っています。
http://www.team-lab.net/all/other/diversity.html
HARMONY, Japan Pavilion, Expo Milano 2015 from teamLab on Vimeo.
Paddy fields, at the background of the origin of Japan’s food culture, were grown and developed in areas at differing height levels such as the mid to high river basins. This is reflected in the terraced rice-fields that are so characteristic of Japan, a country surrounded by mountains and the sea.
This process was made possible thanks to the beautiful harmony that has existed between humans and nature.
In order to show the fact that paddy fields have prospered in places with differing heights, as well as through the harmonious relationship between humans and nature, the space of the exhibition room has been filled with screens resembling ears of rice. These screens have been installed at a variety of different heights, from the knees up to the waist, creating an interactive projection space that seems to spread out infinitely at various heights and directions.
The projected images change in line with the visitors’ movements as they wander through the room.
This interactive art installation creates a space where visitors look as if they are wading their way through the ears of rice. As they wander around, they can experience a passing of nature that is so characteristic of Japan across the period of a whole year.
http://www.team-lab.net/en/all/other/harmony.html
日本の食の原風景である「水田」は、山と海に囲まれた日本では棚田に代表されるように、河川の中上流域など、高低差がある場所で発達しました。
そしてそれは、人と自然が共生（HARMONY）することで生まれてきました。
水田が、「高低差」のある場所で発達してきたことや、「人と自然が共生」することで発達してきたことを表現するため、腰やひざ下など、さまざまな高さでつくった稲穂に見立てたスクリーンで空間を埋め尽くし、腰から膝ほどの高さに映像が無限に広がるインタラクティブな映像空間をつくりました。
映像は、鑑賞者の位置やふるまいに合わせて、変化していきます。
来場者は、まるで稲穂を分け入るかのように、インタラクティブな映像空間の中を分け入り、歩き回りながら、1年を通した、象徴的な日本の自然を体感します。
http://www.team-lab.net/all/other/harmony.html
Field of Hope - Theme Installation of China Pavilion at Milan EXPO 2015 from Danqing Shi on Vimeo.
“The Field of Hope” is an immersive lighting installation of 2015 Milan EXPO China Pavilion. It is designed by Tsinghua University team led by new media artist Danqing Shi. Consisted with 30,000 metal “straws”, this “field” covers the whole exhibition area and merges with the architecture. Each straw has an LED tip with a diffuser functioning as one 3-dimensional pixel. Viewing from above those pixels form a large motion images floating on top of a wheat field.
“The Field of Hope” provides visitors two perspectives to experience:
1. First person perspective: a descending slop at the entrance leads visitor to gradually merge into the “field”, as visitors going down, the relative heights of the plants grow up representing the season changes. While visiting the exhibition items embedded in the field, visitors may wonder why the light straw tips blink different colors.
2. Third Person perspective: visitors then walk up through an ascending ramp to the panorama platform at the second floor. With a broad view of the field from above, the blinking pixels now can be recognized together as one entire image rendering China’s diverse landscapes and an abstract expression of different forms of farm field.
Design team:
New Media Artist: Danqing Shi
Installation Design: Xiaojin Xi, Danqing Shi
Technical Consultant: Feng Xian
Animation Design: Zhigang Wang, Danqing Shi
CG Production: e-go CG
Sound Design: Dai Dai, Zhixu Wang
Music Composer: Xiangguo Yu
expo from Danqing Shi on Vimeo.
The Wings / Daniel Libeskind at Milan EXPO 2015 from ArchDaily on Vimeo.
Daniel Libeskind designs Milan Expo pavilion for Chinese developer Vanke from Dezeen on Vimeo.
See more architecture and design movies at dezeen.com/movies.
New York-based architect Daniel Libeskind has proposed a twisted reptilian structure for the first ever expo pavilion for a stand-alone Chinese company.
Designed for Vanke, China's largest property developer, the Shitang pavilion is already under construction at the Milan Expo 2015 site, and was conceived by Daniel Libeskind as a sinuous volume with a scaly outer skin.
Ancient Chinese teachings and Renaissance art are cited as some of the inspirations for the building, whose twisted shape is intended to create a "continuous flow" between inside and outside spaces. A staircase will also curve around the exterior, leading up to a rooftop terrace.
Responding the Expo theme Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life, New York exhibition designer Ralph Appelbaum and Chinese graphic designer Han Jiaying will work with Libeskind to create an interior described by Vanke as a "virtual forest". This will feature 300 multimedia screens, offering a look at the role of the dinner table in Chinese communities.
“In keeping with the theme of Expo Milano, Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life, we proposed the concept 'Shitang' for the Vanke Pavilion,” said Vanke Chairman Wang Shi.
"Shitang in Chinese means 'table'. We thus want to express our idea of urbanisation and community through the experience of food. Indeed, food is one of the most effective ways to understand a culture: the ritual of eating and talking together is important in every community because by eating together it is possible to get to know each other better," he said.
Libeskind has previously said that he would not work in China on ethical grounds and urged architects to "think twice" about building in the country. Later that same year it was revealed by UK architecture newspaper BD that his practice was working on a 25,000-square-metre public building in Hong Kong.
"This is not a dogmatic idea for Daniel," Nina Libeskind told BD in 2008. "Its a personal thing for him. We've seen what has happened in Tibet, but there is a rule of law in Hong Kong that Daniel is comfortable with."
China unveiled the design for its national pavilion earlier this year. Designed by New York firm Studio Link-Arc and a team from Tsinghua University, it will feature an undulating roof and an indoor field.
Expo 2015 - The river birth from Kouzelna on Vimeo.
"WHERE EUROPE´S RIVERS FLOW FROM"
One of videos made for competition "Czech projection hall on EXPO 2015 in Milano". Video shows creation of Czech rivers. (using slow motion)
Description of whole project:
An audiovisual interactive room "For(r)est" should be a part of the Czech pavilion on Expo 2015 in Milano. This project connects all Expo´s topics with a Czech pavilion theme, Laboratory of life. The room is transformed into
a Czech forest. On the walls there will be interactive projections of Czech animals. There are stylized trees made of special ecological fabric situated around the room space. Forest is a cure for many lifestyle diseases. For(r)est is a place for rest.
Thanks to:
DoP: Orlin Stanchev
Sound: Samuel Jurkovič
Editor: Pavel Šimek
Production: Eva Babincová Plutová
POKROK studio
AVI STUDIO
IS Produkce
Brazilian Pavilion by Raphael França + Takeshi Miyamoto from Sopro Coletivo on Vimeo.
Brazilian Pavilion EXPO Milan 2015 - APEX Brazil
Milan Expo 2015: Slovenian Pavilion / SoNo Arhitekti from ArchDaily on Vimeo.
EXPO MILANO 2015 - BELGIAN PAVILION - HOLOGRAFIC DISPLAY - AQUAPONICS from The Others on Vimeo.
The Pavilion highlights Belgium’s environmental sustainability, technological innovation and national identity. The aim is to express the theme of Expo Milano 2015 at every level: from the architecture to the details of its scenography, and the range of food on offer, to give an integrated, coherent response to the vital issues under investigation. Inside, there are displays and experiments focusing on remarkable scientific and technical advances in the field of food technology, such as alternative food production methods, aquaponics, hydroponics, cultivation of insects and algae. The Pavilion is therefore a genuine laboratory of ideas and innovations on a large scale. The Others have been in charge of coordinating the overall audiovisual content management of the pavilion, creating a special branding to standardise all audiovisual contents, creating and animating 3D photorealistic insect models and creating and animating hydroponics and aquaponics holographic displays.
management of the pavilion, creating a special branding to standardize all audiovisual contents, creating and animating 3D photorealistic insect models and creating and animating hydroponics and aquaponics holographic displays.
Client: Belgian Government
Agency: Besix/Van Houdt
Content production: Patrick Genard
Directed and Produced: The Others
Date: Barcelona May 2015
EXPO MILANO 2015 - BELGIAN PAVILION - INSECT INSTALLATION from The Others on Vimeo.
The Pavilion highlights Belgium’s environmental sustainability, technological innovation and national identity. The aim is to express the theme of Expo Milano 2015 at every level: from the architecture to the details of its scenography, and the range of food on offer, to give an integrated, coherent response to the vital issues under investigation. Inside, there are displays and experiments focusing on remarkable scientific and technical advances in the field of food technology, such as alternative food production methods, aquaponics, hydroponics, cultivation of insects and algae. The Pavilion is therefore a genuine laboratory of ideas and innovations on a large scale. The Others have been in charge of coordinating the overall audiovisual content management of the pavilion, creating a special branding to standardize all audiovisual contents, creating and animating 3D photorealistic insect models and creating and animating hydroponics and aquaponics holographic displays.
Client: Belgian Government
Agency: Besix/Van Houdt
Content production: Patrick Genard
Directed and Produced: The Others
Date: Barcelona May 2015
EXPO MILANO 2015 - BELGIAN PAVILION - HOLOGRAFIC DISPLAY - ROTATORY from The Others on Vimeo.
The Pavilion highlights Belgium’s environmental sustainability, technological innovation and national identity. The aim is to express the theme of Expo Milano 2015 at every level: from the architecture to the details of its scenography, and the range of food on offer, to give an integrated, coherent response to the vital issues under investigation. Inside, there are displays and experiments focusing on remarkable scientific and technical advances in the field of food technology, such as alternative food production methods, aquaponics, hydroponics, cultivation of insects and algae. The Pavilion is therefore a genuine laboratory of ideas and innovations on a large scale. The Others have been in charge of coordinating the overall audiovisual content management of the pavilion, creating a special branding to standardize all audiovisual contents, creating and animating 3D photorealistic insect models and creating and animating hydroponics and aquaponics holographic displays.
Client: Belgian Government
Agency: Besix/Van Houdt
Content production: Patrick Genard
Directed and Produced: The Others
Date: Barcelona May 2015
EXPO MILANO 2015 - BELGIAN PAVILION - INSECT DISPLAY from The Others on Vimeo.
The Pavilion highlights Belgium’s environmental sustainability, technological innovation and national identity. The aim is to express the theme of Expo Milano 2015 at every level: from the architecture to the details of its scenography, and the range of food on offer, to give an integrated, coherent response to the vital issues under investigation. Inside, there are displays and experiments focusing on remarkable scientific and technical advances in the field of food technology, such as alternative food production methods, aquaponics, hydroponics, cultivation of insects and algae. The Pavilion is therefore a genuine laboratory of ideas and innovations on a large scale. The Others have been in charge of coordinating the overall audiovisual content management of the pavilion, creating a special branding to standardize all audiovisual contents, creating and animating 3D photorealistic insect models and creating and animating hydroponics and aquaponics holographic displays.
Client: Belgian Government
Agency: Besix/Van Houdt
Content production: Patrick Genard
Directed and Produced: The Others
Date: Barcelona May 2015
EXPO MILANO 2015 - BELGIAN PAVILION - HOLOGRAFIC DISPLAY - HYDROPONICS from The Others on Vimeo.
The Pavilion highlights Belgium’s environmental sustainability, technological innovation and national identity. The aim is to express the theme of Expo Milano 2015 at every level: from the architecture to the details of its scenography, and the range of food on offer, to give an integrated, coherent response to the vital issues under investigation. Inside, there are displays and experiments focusing on remarkable scientific and technical advances in the field of food technology, such as alternative food production methods, aquaponics, hydroponics, cultivation of insects and algae. The Pavilion is therefore a genuine laboratory of ideas and innovations on a large scale. The Others have been in charge of coordinating the overall audiovisual content management of the pavilion, creating a special branding to standardise all audiovisual contents, creating and animating 3D photorealistic insect models and creating and animating hydroponics and aquaponics holographic displays.
Client: Belgian Govenrment
Agency: Besix/Van Houdt
Content production: Patrick Genard
Directed and Produced: The Others
Date: Barcelona May 2015
German Pavilion Expo Milano 2015 from SCHMIDHUBER on Vimeo.
“Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life” is the theme for Expo 2015. The German pavilion clearly orients itself to this leitmotif – under the “Fields of Ideas” motto. Germany reveals itself as a vibrant, fertile “landscape” filled with ideas on future human nutrition. The pavilion vividly illustrates just how important dealing respectfully with nature is to our ongoing food supply, while inviting visitors to take action themselves.
Visitors can discover the “Fields of Ideas” along two different routes. They can either stroll along the pavilion’s freely accessible upper level, which invites them to relax and enjoy. Or they can explore the exhibition inside the pavilion, which addresses such topics as the sources of nutrition, through to food production and consumption in the urban world.
Overall responsibility:
German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, Bonn
Management company:
Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH
Design, planning, realization:
German Pavilion Expo Milano 2015 Consortium
Spatial concept, architecture, general planning:
SCHMIDHUBER, Munich
Content concept, exhibition, media:
Milla & Partner, Stuttgart
Project management and construction:
Nüssli (Deutschland) GmbH, Roth
German Pavilion Expo Milano 2015 - Solar Trees from SCHMIDHUBER on Vimeo.
The central design element of the pavilion are expressive membrane-covered shelters in the shape of sprouting plants: the “Idea Seedlings.” Their construction and bionic design vocabulary are inspired by nature. The Idea Seedlings link the interior and exterior spaces, a blend of architecture and exhibition, and at the same time provide shade for visitors in the hot Italian summer.
By integrating cutting-edge organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology, the seedlings become Solar Trees. The German Pavilion is the first large international architecture project to use these innovative new products. In contrast with a project using conventional solar modules, the German Pavilion architects had the opportunity to do more than just incorporate existing technology. They had free rein to design the flexible, OPV membrane modules to match their own creative ideas, and to integrate them into the overall design of the pavilion.
Overall responsibility:
German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, Bonn
Management company:
Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH
Design, planning, realization:
German Pavilion Expo Milano 2015 Consortium
Spatial concept, architecture, general planning:
SCHMIDHUBER, Munich
Content concept, exhibition, media:
Milla & Partner, Stuttgart
Project management and construction:
Nüssli (Deutschland) GmbH, Roth
Zumtobel illuminates breathe.austria Austrian pavilion at EXPO Milano 2015 from Zumtobel Lighting on Vimeo.
"Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life"– this is the theme of Expo Milano 2015, which focuses on sustainability produced food and renewable energy. Austria's contribution is dedicated to the most elementary means of life: air. In breathe.austria, architecture, nature, culture and research are merged to create an inspiring experience – visitors find themselves in the midst of a natural forest originating from Austria.
Milano Expo2015/ Temporary pavillion from A2BC on Vimeo.
The project for a temporary pavilion for the Milano Expo 2015 takes shape in a radical gesture, communicatively evoking a clear visual identity, which is synthesized in a distinctly recognizable archetype. The portal acts as a direct quotation that abandons the significance of its historically commemorative purpose, to create a shared dimension; a shared public space. "Ex Machina" defines a place, an axis, an intersection.
The design intends to create two levels of shared public space; immediately at the street level and above, granting visitors a rarely accessible view of the city .
The strength of its composition, pace of the structure, and its permeability and lightness establish a clear architecture in which therole of the public is the same as the surrounding monuments.
Ukrainian Pavilion Expo 2015 Milan. Computational Architecture from Dmytro Aranchii Architects on Vimeo.
watch new video of Ukraine Pavilion EXPO2015 https://vimeo.com/123357174
Prototype of Ukraine's Pavilion for world EXPO 2015 in Milan
Pavilion is modular, provides fast dis/assembly and responsive to environment through adaptation according to its conditions
Прототип українського павільйону на Експо 2015 у Мілані
Павільйон є модульним, що забезпечує його швидку роз/бірку та чутливий до навколишнього середовища, здатний адаптуватися під його умови
ecoLogicStudio transforms cladding system into a bioreactor with Urban Algae Canopy from Dezeen on Vimeo.
In this movie Marco Poletto of ecoLogicStudio claims the integrated algae farm and cladding system his practice will showcase at the 2015 Milan Expo could be used to power cities in future.
See more architecture and design movies at http://www.dezeen.com/movies
daniel libeskind on his design for the vanke paivlion for expo 2015 in milan from designboom on Vimeo.
designboom speaks to daniel libeskind who elaborates on the themes and technical challenges he faced in the realization of the vanke pavilion he designed for expo 2015 in milan.
see the original article on designboom here:
http://www.designboom.com/architecture/vanke-pavilion-expo-milan-2015-daniel-libeskind-interview-05-04-2015/
michele molè of nemesi & partners explains the italy pavilion at expo 2015 from designboom on Vimeo.
architect michele molè of nemesi & partners explains his design for the italy pavilion at milan's expo 2015.
see the original article on designboom here:
http://www.designboom.com/architecture/italy-pavilion-expo-milan-2015-nemesi-partners-michele-mole-interview-05-06-2015/
benedetta tagliabue describes the concept behind her copagri 'love it' pavilion for expo milano 2015 from designboom on Vimeo.
the italian born architect elaborates on the architectural concept and programmatic layout of the domed structures.
see the full interview on designboom here:
http://www.designboom.com/architecture/benedetta-tagliabue-embt-copagri-pavilion-expo-milano-06-19-2015
wolfgang buttress on his scheme of the beehive for the UK pavilion at expo milan 2015 from designboom on Vimeo.
designboom interviews wolfgang buttress regarding the conceptual journey he took in realizing the UK pavilion at expo milano 2015.
see the original article on designboom:
www.designboom.com/architecture/uk-pavilion-expo-milan-2015-wolfgang-buttress-interview-05-05-2015/
wolfgang buttress elaborates on the immersive experience of the UK pavilion at expo milan 2015 from designboom on Vimeo.
designboom interviews wolfgang buttress who elaborates on the overall audio and visual experience he wants visitors to have when approaching and engaging with the UK pavilion at expo milan 2015.
see the original article on designboom:
designboom.com/architecture/uk-pavilion-expo-milan-2015-wolfgang-buttress-interview-05-05-2015/
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Thursday, August 27
Saturday, October 19
Talks on the Higgs
This year the Nobel prize in Physics went to
François Englert & Peter W. Higgs For their Discovery and i quote Nobel Prize website
"for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2013/
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/
Following some videos and Lectures on the concept of the Higgs Boson
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-basics-of-boson-dave-barney-and-steve-goldfarb
http://blog.ted.com/2013/05/03/physicists-from-cern-team-up-with-ted-ed-to-create-five-lessons-that-make-particle-physics-childs-play/
Published on Feb 14, 2013
Last summer, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, announced the discovery of a new particle that could explain why elementary particles have mass. On February 7, 2013, a panel of experts from the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, and Fermilab discussed why this discovery marks the beginning of a new era in particle physics research.
François Englert & Peter W. Higgs For their Discovery and i quote Nobel Prize website
"for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2013/
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/
Following some videos and Lectures on the concept of the Higgs Boson
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-basics-of-boson-dave-barney-and-steve-goldfarb
http://blog.ted.com/2013/05/03/physicists-from-cern-team-up-with-ted-ed-to-create-five-lessons-that-make-particle-physics-childs-play/
Published on Jul 16, 2012
On
Friday July 13 at noon, faculty and other members of the Physics
Department helped the campus community understand the significance of
discovering the Higgs Boson, the particle that was predicted by Peter
Higgs almost 50 years ago. Mark Richards, Executive Dean of the College
of Letters & Sciences, will host this discussion for the Berkeley
community.
Professors Beate Heinemann, an experimental physicist and a member of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in CERN, Switzerland, and Lawrence Hall, a theoretical physicist and former Director of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, explained what the Higgs is, why it was predicted and how it was proven to exist. They were joined by panel members Professor Marjorie Shapiro, also a member of the Atlas experiment, Miller Fellow Josh Ruderman and PhD student and ATLAS member Louise Skinnari
Professors Beate Heinemann, an experimental physicist and a member of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in CERN, Switzerland, and Lawrence Hall, a theoretical physicist and former Director of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, explained what the Higgs is, why it was predicted and how it was proven to exist. They were joined by panel members Professor Marjorie Shapiro, also a member of the Atlas experiment, Miller Fellow Josh Ruderman and PhD student and ATLAS member Louise Skinnari
Published on Feb 14, 2013
Last summer, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, announced the discovery of a new particle that could explain why elementary particles have mass. On February 7, 2013, a panel of experts from the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, and Fermilab discussed why this discovery marks the beginning of a new era in particle physics research.
Published on Mar 3, 2012
Anticipation is building in the run-up to presentations of the best-yet evidence for - or against - the existence of the Higgs boson.
The famed particle is a missing link in current theories of physics, used to explain how things gains their mass.
Rumours have been swirling about the findings for weeks, ahead of the announcement on Tuesday afternoon.
It is likely to yield only tantalising hints, as the teams do not have enough data to claim a formal discovery.
However, most physicists concede that not finding the Higgs boson is as exciting a prospect as finding it in the place where existing theory predicts it should be.
"If we wouldn't find it it would be even - in a way - more exciting, but you know, both ways, it's a win-win situation," said Prof Stefan Soldner-Rembold, a particle physicist from the University of Manchester.
"[If] we find it, we know this theory's complete, but there's still more things to look for. If we don't find it, we know there must be something else which we haven't understood yet."
Field day
Finding the Higgs was a key goal for the $10bn (£6bn) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - a 27km (17-mile) circumference accelerator ring of superconducting magnets, designed to re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang in an attempt to answer fundamental questions of science and the Universe itself.
The collider hosts two experiments - Atlas and CMS - that are searching for the particle independentlyThere is intense excitement among physicists working at Cern, the Geneva-based organisation which operates the collider, over hints that the hunters have cornered their quarry.
"It is a fantastic time at the moment, you can feel people are enthusiastic," Dr Christoph Rembser, a senior scientist on the Atlas experiment, told BBC News. "It is really very lively."
Continue reading the main story
"Start Quote If the Universe really is like that, I find it really quite breathtaking and humbling that we can understand it"
Dr Tara Shears University of Liverpool, UK
Prof Soldner-Rembold called the quality of the LHC's results "exceptional", adding: "Within one year we will probably know whether the Higgs particle exists, but it is likely not going to be a Christmas present."
He told me: "The Higgs particle would, of course, be a great discovery, but it would be an even greater discovery if it didn't exist where theory predicts it to be."
The Higgs boson is a "fundamental" particle; one of the basic building blocks of the Universe. It is also the last missing piece in the leading theory of particle physics - known as the Standard Model - which describes how particles and forces interact.
The Higgs explains why other particles have mass. As the Universe cooled after the Big Bang, an invisible force known as the Higgs field formed together with its associated boson particle.
It is this field (and not the boson) that imparts mass to the fundamental particles that make up atoms. Without it, these particles would zip through the cosmos at the speed of light.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019h7t0
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2191711/
The famed particle is a missing link in current theories of physics, used to explain how things gains their mass.
Rumours have been swirling about the findings for weeks, ahead of the announcement on Tuesday afternoon.
It is likely to yield only tantalising hints, as the teams do not have enough data to claim a formal discovery.
However, most physicists concede that not finding the Higgs boson is as exciting a prospect as finding it in the place where existing theory predicts it should be.
"If we wouldn't find it it would be even - in a way - more exciting, but you know, both ways, it's a win-win situation," said Prof Stefan Soldner-Rembold, a particle physicist from the University of Manchester.
"[If] we find it, we know this theory's complete, but there's still more things to look for. If we don't find it, we know there must be something else which we haven't understood yet."
Field day
Finding the Higgs was a key goal for the $10bn (£6bn) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - a 27km (17-mile) circumference accelerator ring of superconducting magnets, designed to re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang in an attempt to answer fundamental questions of science and the Universe itself.
The collider hosts two experiments - Atlas and CMS - that are searching for the particle independentlyThere is intense excitement among physicists working at Cern, the Geneva-based organisation which operates the collider, over hints that the hunters have cornered their quarry.
"It is a fantastic time at the moment, you can feel people are enthusiastic," Dr Christoph Rembser, a senior scientist on the Atlas experiment, told BBC News. "It is really very lively."
Continue reading the main story
"Start Quote If the Universe really is like that, I find it really quite breathtaking and humbling that we can understand it"
Dr Tara Shears University of Liverpool, UK
Prof Soldner-Rembold called the quality of the LHC's results "exceptional", adding: "Within one year we will probably know whether the Higgs particle exists, but it is likely not going to be a Christmas present."
He told me: "The Higgs particle would, of course, be a great discovery, but it would be an even greater discovery if it didn't exist where theory predicts it to be."
The Higgs boson is a "fundamental" particle; one of the basic building blocks of the Universe. It is also the last missing piece in the leading theory of particle physics - known as the Standard Model - which describes how particles and forces interact.
The Higgs explains why other particles have mass. As the Universe cooled after the Big Bang, an invisible force known as the Higgs field formed together with its associated boson particle.
It is this field (and not the boson) that imparts mass to the fundamental particles that make up atoms. Without it, these particles would zip through the cosmos at the speed of light.
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Published on Mar 31, 2013
Dr. Ellis, Maxwell Professor of theoretical physics at King's College London and Guest Professor at the European Organisation
for Nuclear Research (CERN), joins the BOLDtalks 2013 platform to
explain the significance of the particle recently discovered at CERN
(thought to be the long-sought Higgs Boson) and what its discovery means
for the future of science and understanding the fabric of the Universe.
Dr. Ellis is a world expert in the fields of particle physics,
astrophysics, cosmology and quantum gravity.
In particle physics, there is a theory called the 'Standard Model' that explains that the universe is completely comprised of matter (fermions) and force (bosons).
However, more than 50 years ago Peter Higgs and five other theoretical physicists proposed that an invisible field lying across the Universe gives particles their mass, allowing them to clump together to form stars and planets.
This theory has been unproved, until July 2012, when scientists from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have announced a breakthrough discovery of Higgs Boson, using the Large Hydron Collider (LHC) - the world's largest particle accelerator.
Dr. Ellis, Maxwell Professor of theoretical physics at King's College London and Guest Professor at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), presents at BOLDtalks 2013 the significance of the particle recently discovered at CERN (thought to be the long-sought Higgs Boson) and what its discovery means for the future of science and understanding the fabric of the Universe. Dr. Ellis is a world expert in the fields of particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology and quantum gravity.
In particle physics, there is a theory called the 'Standard Model' that explains that the universe is completely comprised of matter (fermions) and force (bosons).
However, more than 50 years ago Peter Higgs and five other theoretical physicists proposed that an invisible field lying across the Universe gives particles their mass, allowing them to clump together to form stars and planets.
This theory has been unproved, until July 2012, when scientists from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have announced a breakthrough discovery of Higgs Boson, using the Large Hydron Collider (LHC) - the world's largest particle accelerator.
Dr. Ellis, Maxwell Professor of theoretical physics at King's College London and Guest Professor at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), presents at BOLDtalks 2013 the significance of the particle recently discovered at CERN (thought to be the long-sought Higgs Boson) and what its discovery means for the future of science and understanding the fabric of the Universe. Dr. Ellis is a world expert in the fields of particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology and quantum gravity.
Published on Jul 4, 2012
4th of July 2012, this is the day the Higgs Boson was discovered by the human race.
After 45 years of searching, Peter Higgs can now announce to the world how he has seen the culmination of his life's work finally blossom into a tangible result, a result which has brought an all too human emotion to this triumph.
Francois Englert, Carl Hagen and Gerald Guralnik are also present in this announcement, who created the theory along with the late Robert Brout. For this reason it could also be referred to as the HEB-Boson.
The Higgs field and resulting Higgs boson are a vital part of the Electroweak Interaction and the Standard Model of Particle Physics. In the absence of the Higgs field, when a Local Gauge is applied to the Lagrangian of the Electroweak Interaction we are left with force-carrying bosons that are massive, the W and Z Bosons with masses of ~80GeV and ~90GeV respectively. This would be okay for the Photon as it has no mass, but why are the W and Z Bosons massive?
The Higgs mechanism was the most favoured explanation for solving this problem.
In brief, the Higgs field is introduced to 'break' the symmetry of the Electroweak theory, which allows particles to have mass.
This Higgs mechanism is important as it not only explains how the heavy bosons become massive but also provides an explanation as to how the fermions come to have mass.
The Mechanism of the interaction is simple to understand. Where the Electroweak Interaction couples to electric and weak (or flavour) charges and the Strong Interaction couples to colour charge, the Higgs interaction couples to mass. The process by which the Higgs gives fermions mass is via the Yukawa potential. This potential gives the coupling strength of the Higgs to all types of fermions, the stronger the coupling, the more mass the particle will have. Hence the Higgs Boson couples more strongly to more massive particles, hence the energies of the LHC were necessary to create the most massive particles for the Higgs to couple with.
Why we needed this boson is a bit more complicated, which corresponds to Peter Higgs, Yoichiro Nambu and Jeffrey Goldstone's theoretical research.
In the Electroweak interaction you can examine the Lagrangian in a similar way to those for Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) and also Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Starting with the Dirac Lagrangian, when a Local Gauge is applied the resulting Lagrangrian is not invariant under the transformation. The local gauge transformation applied to the Langrangian is dependent on the symmetry, for example for the weak force we use SU(2) symmetry as we want physics invariant under swapping up-like and down-like fermions.
When a Local Gauge Symmetry is applied to the Electroweak Lagrangian it does not remain invariant under the gauge transformation. This can be rectified by the introduction of appropriate fields, which have associated mass-less bosons W1, W2, W3 and B. The SU(2)xU(1) symmetry of the electroweak theory is non-abelian which means that the bosons interact with each other as well as with fermions.
The Electroweak theory needs to end up with three massive bosons (2 charged and 1 neutral) and also a mass-less boson. The Goldstone Theorem provides a mechanism by which the 4 mass-less bosons from the original symmetry can become the four Electroweak bosons described above. The Goldstone theorem states "that for any continuous symmetry broken, there exists a mass-less particle, the Goldstone boson." The result is that for each broken generator, there is a resulting mass-less scalar boson.
The Higgs mechanism is the process applied to Electroweak theory. A complex doublet Higgs field can be included in the theory and this Higgs field breaks the symmetry of the problem while retaining local gauge invariance. This Higgs field (two complex scalar fields which transform under the SU(2) symmetry) will, via the Goldstone Theorem, result in a scalar Higgs boson and 3 Goldstone bosons which will provide mass. The three Goldstone bosons interact with the original fields to provide mass for the W+, W- and Z bosons while leaving the fourth boson mass-less. This can be seen mathematically by looking at the changed form of the Electroweak Lagrangian due to the introduction of the Higgs fields.
There is a reason to believe that the Higgs Boson discovered is not the garden-variety Higgs that physicists were expecting. It's relatively low mass may place it in the Supersymmetric regime, and may be humanity's first probe into Supersymmetry. If the Boson was discovered to be a singlet it would also be the first fundamental singlet ever discovered, sparking new interest in finding the last piece of the singlet, vector, tensor boson puzzle: The Graviton, the force carrier for the gravitational force and the key ingredient in the Theory of Everything, "The Promised Land" of Physics that will explain how General Relativity works with Quantum Theory in a Grand Unified Force.
Higgs Boson Channel on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/HCHTf0TBvHqkQ HB
After 45 years of searching, Peter Higgs can now announce to the world how he has seen the culmination of his life's work finally blossom into a tangible result, a result which has brought an all too human emotion to this triumph.
Francois Englert, Carl Hagen and Gerald Guralnik are also present in this announcement, who created the theory along with the late Robert Brout. For this reason it could also be referred to as the HEB-Boson.
The Higgs field and resulting Higgs boson are a vital part of the Electroweak Interaction and the Standard Model of Particle Physics. In the absence of the Higgs field, when a Local Gauge is applied to the Lagrangian of the Electroweak Interaction we are left with force-carrying bosons that are massive, the W and Z Bosons with masses of ~80GeV and ~90GeV respectively. This would be okay for the Photon as it has no mass, but why are the W and Z Bosons massive?
The Higgs mechanism was the most favoured explanation for solving this problem.
In brief, the Higgs field is introduced to 'break' the symmetry of the Electroweak theory, which allows particles to have mass.
This Higgs mechanism is important as it not only explains how the heavy bosons become massive but also provides an explanation as to how the fermions come to have mass.
The Mechanism of the interaction is simple to understand. Where the Electroweak Interaction couples to electric and weak (or flavour) charges and the Strong Interaction couples to colour charge, the Higgs interaction couples to mass. The process by which the Higgs gives fermions mass is via the Yukawa potential. This potential gives the coupling strength of the Higgs to all types of fermions, the stronger the coupling, the more mass the particle will have. Hence the Higgs Boson couples more strongly to more massive particles, hence the energies of the LHC were necessary to create the most massive particles for the Higgs to couple with.
Why we needed this boson is a bit more complicated, which corresponds to Peter Higgs, Yoichiro Nambu and Jeffrey Goldstone's theoretical research.
In the Electroweak interaction you can examine the Lagrangian in a similar way to those for Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) and also Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Starting with the Dirac Lagrangian, when a Local Gauge is applied the resulting Lagrangrian is not invariant under the transformation. The local gauge transformation applied to the Langrangian is dependent on the symmetry, for example for the weak force we use SU(2) symmetry as we want physics invariant under swapping up-like and down-like fermions.
When a Local Gauge Symmetry is applied to the Electroweak Lagrangian it does not remain invariant under the gauge transformation. This can be rectified by the introduction of appropriate fields, which have associated mass-less bosons W1, W2, W3 and B. The SU(2)xU(1) symmetry of the electroweak theory is non-abelian which means that the bosons interact with each other as well as with fermions.
The Electroweak theory needs to end up with three massive bosons (2 charged and 1 neutral) and also a mass-less boson. The Goldstone Theorem provides a mechanism by which the 4 mass-less bosons from the original symmetry can become the four Electroweak bosons described above. The Goldstone theorem states "that for any continuous symmetry broken, there exists a mass-less particle, the Goldstone boson." The result is that for each broken generator, there is a resulting mass-less scalar boson.
The Higgs mechanism is the process applied to Electroweak theory. A complex doublet Higgs field can be included in the theory and this Higgs field breaks the symmetry of the problem while retaining local gauge invariance. This Higgs field (two complex scalar fields which transform under the SU(2) symmetry) will, via the Goldstone Theorem, result in a scalar Higgs boson and 3 Goldstone bosons which will provide mass. The three Goldstone bosons interact with the original fields to provide mass for the W+, W- and Z bosons while leaving the fourth boson mass-less. This can be seen mathematically by looking at the changed form of the Electroweak Lagrangian due to the introduction of the Higgs fields.
There is a reason to believe that the Higgs Boson discovered is not the garden-variety Higgs that physicists were expecting. It's relatively low mass may place it in the Supersymmetric regime, and may be humanity's first probe into Supersymmetry. If the Boson was discovered to be a singlet it would also be the first fundamental singlet ever discovered, sparking new interest in finding the last piece of the singlet, vector, tensor boson puzzle: The Graviton, the force carrier for the gravitational force and the key ingredient in the Theory of Everything, "The Promised Land" of Physics that will explain how General Relativity works with Quantum Theory in a Grand Unified Force.
Higgs Boson Channel on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/HCHTf0TBvHqkQ HB
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