Everyone knows physics is difficult. It appears that it is going to become even more difficult.
Physics is difficult because it involves a variety of methods of understanding. It also requires the ability to translate words, tables, graphs, equations, diagrams and maps from one to another. Physics also requires ability to use algebra and geometry and to go from the specific to general and back.
A recent study of the difficulty of learning physics in a class concluded that many students were unable to place the concepts in perspective. Therefore the students’ knowledge and understanding of physics was fragmented and compartmentalized and they could not perceive the unity of the subject.
How is the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle going to help learning physics? What is this particle anyway? The discovery of the particle is momentous because it vindicates scientists who theorized that its existence would explain a core mystery of physics. Three independent groups of physicists first proposed it in the 1960s to explain why fundamental particles – the most basic building blocks of matter – had enormous differences in mass. In particular, did you wonder why electrons, which whiz around the nucleus of an atom, are ultralight, while quarks, which make up the protons and neutrons in the nucleus, are heavier.
Therefore now to understand physics, you don’t only need to know that electrons whiz around the nucleus of an atom, but also Higgs Boson are sitting somewhere inside the atom.
I hope you, the reader, understand it because I am having some difficulty myself!!
