The Scientist: God's Particle
Oil on Canvas. 36" x 48"
I wanted to portray a scientist, along with his inner feelings. I took the “Higgs boson- God’s particle” as my reference. On the left side, I tried to show the experiment, while the right side represented a scientist/researcher.
In 2012, in the process of discovering details about the universe, scientists did experiments at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research’s, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a massive particle accelerator located in a tunnel 27-kilometre (16.8-mile) beneath the Swiss-French border, where an explosion took place, and the Higgs boson particle was discovered.
Its discovery won Professor Peter Higgs, a scientist from the University of Edinburgh, a share of the Nobel prize for physics in 2013, for predicting the existence of the particle in the 1960s and lending it his name.
Without the Higgs boson, the universe would have been cold, dark, and lifeless. Because of its fundamental importance, the Higgs boson was nicknamed the 'God particle'.
If the Higgs boson had not been found, then we are in the regime where perturbative unitarity has broken down, and we are led to the exciting conclusion that there must be new physics, beyond the Standard Model, waiting to be discovered.
