Your Higgs number-how fundamental physics is connected to technology and societal revolutions Academic Article

abstract

• 2015 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Fundamental physics, as exemplified by the recently discovered Higgs boson, often appears to be completely disconnected from practical applications and ordinary human life. But this is not really the case, because science, technology, and human affairs are profoundly integrated in ways that are not immediately obvious. We illustrate this by defining a 'Higgs number' through overlapping activities. Following three different paths, which end respectively in applications of the World Wide Web, digital photography, and all modern electronic devices, we find that most people have a Higgs number of no greater than 3.

authors

• Allen, Roland
• Lidstrom, Suzanne

published proceedings

• PHYSICA SCRIPTA

altmetric score

• 1

author list (cited authors)

• Allen, R. E., & Lidstrom, S.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Allen, Roland E||Lidstrom, Suzy

publication date

• February 2015

publisher

• IOP Publishing  Publisher

keywords

• Beh Mechanism
• Electronics
• Higgs Boson
• Integrated Circuit
• Internet
• Superconductivity
• Worldwide Web

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1088/0031-8949/90/2/028002

start page

• 028002

end page

• 028002

volume

• 90

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/90/2/028002