Ingcali yefiziksi yaseBhritane yethiyori uNjingalwazi uPeter Higgs, owaziwa ngokuxela kwangaphambili intsimi kaHiggs ngo-1964 uye wasweleka nge-8 ka-Epreli 2024 kulandela isigulo esifutshane. Wayeneminyaka engama-94.
Kuthathe malunga nesiqingatha senkulungwane phambi kokuba kubekho ukunikezelwa ngobuninzi Intsimi yeHiggs inokuqinisekiswa ngomfuniselo ngo-2012 xa CERN abaphandi kwi-Large Hadron Collider (LHC) babike ukufunyanwa kweqhekeza elitsha, elihambelana ne-Higgs boson.
I-Higgs boson, i-particle ehambelana ne-Higgs field iziphathe ngokuchanekileyo ngendlela echazwe ngayo imodeli esemgangathweni. I-particle ye-Higgs inobomi obufutshane kakhulu, malunga ne-10-22 imizuzwana.
Intsimi yeHiggs igcwalisa yonke indawo Ehlabathini. Inoxanduva lokunika ubunzima kuwo onke amasuntswana asisiseko. Xa i yonke yaqala, akukho masuntswana ayenobunzima. Amalungu afumene ubunzima bawo kwintsimi esisiseko enxulumene ne-Higgs boson. Iinkwenkwezi, maplanethi, ubomi kunye nayo yonke into inokuvela kuphela ngenxa ye-Higgs boson kungoko le nxalenye ibizwa ngokuba yi-particle god.
Unjingalwazi uHiggs wawongwa ngokudibeneyo ngeBhaso leNobel kwiFiziksi ngo-2013, kunye noFrancois Englert. “ukufunyanwa kwethiyori yesixhobo esinegalelo ekuqondeni kwethu imvelaphi yobunzima bamasuntswana angaphantsi kwe-subatomic, nethe yaqinisekiswa kutshanje ngokufunyaniswa kwesuntswana elisisiseko eliqikelelweyo, yi-ATLAS kunye novavanyo lwe-CMS kwi-CERN's Large Hadron Collider”.
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Imithombo:
- KwiYunivesithi yase-Edinburgh. Iindaba - Ingxelo ngokusweleka kukaNjingalwazi uPeter Higgs. Ipapashwe nge-9 Apr, 2024. Ifumaneka e https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2024/statement-on-the-death-of-professor-peter-higgs
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