The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sor… - Peter Higgs
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sor…
- Peter Higgs
I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge. - Peter Higgs
I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.
When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing. - Peter Higgs
When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.
Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky. - Peter Higgs
Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.
The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water,… - Peter Higgs
The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water,…
That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it wa… - Peter Higgs
That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it wa…
The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind o… - Peter Higgs
The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind o…
If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that. - Peter Higgs
If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.
I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of… - Peter Higgs
I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of…
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