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
Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind. - Peter Higgs
Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.
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…
I would send back a statement: ‘None.’ - Peter Higgs
I would send back a statement: ‘None.’
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.
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.
This summer I have discovered something totally useless. - Peter Higgs
This summer I have discovered something totally useless.
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,…
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.
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