Reality TV Star’s Identity Journey and Particle Physics

Reality TV Star’s Identity Journey and Particle Physics

Summary: First Story

The author of this story writes about the unforeseen discovery of a character in a reality show about a young beauty pageant star who could turn out to be a star of his performance. The hit reality show aired on TLC features Alana Thompson, a beauty pageant contestant known as “Honey Boo Boo,” and her family in the rural areas of Georgia. The show brought to light Alana’s uncle Lee Thompson, nicknamed by Alana “Uncle Poodle.” The element that makes Lee stand out is that he is an openly gay man in the rural areas of Georgia, and he later on, reveals that he is HIV positive.

Lee’s lifestyle puts him in the limelight, and he stands out from everyone else in the show except for the main star, Alana. According to the author, Lee revealed his HIV status in a recent interview and further went on to say that he wanted to use his newfound fame positively by being a role model to those in his community of LGBTQ+ and those with HIV/AIDS. If he was given a platform like a reality show, Lee intended to use it to showcase how an individual like him, i.e., a gay man from the rural South and HIV positive, lived. Lee believes that his story is worth telling, as he says in his own words, “I think I have a good story to tell.”

Furthermore, the author also highlights that the show did elicit varying views from the audience. While some were positive, others were “often ridicule and disgust.” The author goes on ahead to give an example of the contrasting views of a popular Hollywood reporter, Jodie Foster, whose clear views were that the show was a “horrifying” example of “exploitation” for its depiction of redneck culture.” Nevertheless, even with the negative reviews of the show, there are some positive ones as well. For example, the author writes that the LGBTQ+ community has positively embraced reality mostly because Alana’s family had a very open attitude towards Lee’s sexual orientation and his HIV status as well. Further, the author mentions that the show had been nominated by the advocacy group known as GLAAD for its Media Awards.

Summary: Second Story

The author of the story starts by highlighting how matters concerning scientific information like particle physics that are almost useful in further scientific advancement rarely make the news. Further, the writer also comments that instead, issues of politics and celebrity news are always given priority. However, one piece of information about particle physics did manage to break the news. This information was about the Higgs boson; since its discovery, the particle not only gained significant media attention but, over time, the attention has only garnered up. The Higgs boson is linked to the Higgs field, which is known to give mass to electrons and quarks, the most fundamental particles of matter. For a long time, the Higgs boson was only a theory till July of 2012, when scientists at CERN publicized that they had found a particle that acted the way a Higgs boson is expected to work; hence, they said it was the Higgs boson.

In the story, the author speculates on different reasons why this particular scientific discovery made such a buzz in the news. One reason the author gives is that the nickname given to the particle, “God Particle,” which was both “grand and controversial,” has played a significant part in making a headline in the news. A second reason the author gives is the fascinating prospect that the Higgs boson is accountable for all the universe’s mass is an imagination-capturing concept. Third and lastly, the author argues that maybe people are simply excited about the idea of gaining more knowledge about how the world works, like how matter is formed. As such, the discovery of the Higgs boson will undoubtedly help solve the puzzle.

To further clarify the Higgs boson, the author writes about the standard model, which is one of the most significant concepts explaining how the universe works. According to the writer, the standard model is connected to particle physics. Accordingly, physicists in particle physics mainly focus on breaking down the complex universe into its simplest building blocks. Consistently, the writer does comment on how this process has been challenging and has taken a long time before any positive results were seen. In the breakdown process, one of the positive discoveries made was the atoms, followed by protons, neutrons, and electrons, and the last ones to be discovered were leptons and quarks.

Moreover, the author explains that the universe is not only made up of particles; rather, some forces act upon these particles to form different types of matter. As such, the standard model has contributed significant knowledge about these forces and other types of matter. Furthermore, the author gives a short, simple explanation of the concept of the standard model by linking the European Organization for Nuclear Research as the source of information. In their summary, the author explains that the model was developed in early 1970 and stated that the cosmos consists of varying particle matters totaling up to twelve and four forces. The twelve particles are composed of six leptons and six quarks; further breakdown of these particles reveals that the quarks consist of neutrons and protons, while leptons comprise electrons and their neutrally charged complement, the electron neutrino. The author concludes by stating that scientists’ opinion on both quarks and leptons is that they are indivisible. This means that these particles cannot be broken down into smaller particles. Moreover, that in addition to the particles above, the standard model accepts “four forced gravity electromagnetic, both weak and strong.”

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Reality TV Star’s Identity Journey and Particle Physics

Particle physics usually has a hard time competing with politics and celebrity gossip or headlines, but the Higgs boson has garnered some serious attention. That’s exactly what happened on July 4, 2012, though, when scientists at CERN announced that they’d found a particle that behaved the way they expected the Higgs boson to behave. Maybe the famed boson’s grand and controversial nickname, the “God Particle,” has kept media outlets buzzing. Then again, the intriguing possibility that the Higgs boson is responsible for all the mass in the universe captures the imagination, too. Or perhaps we’re excited to learn more about our world, and we know that if the Higgs boson does exist, we’ll unravel the mystery a little more.