Frank Close, "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass" (Basic Book, 2022)
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The Higgs Boson and Its Implications in the Physical Sciences
The discovery of the higgs boson is as big ass a century earlier, rutherford's demonstration that theer of the nuclear atom was er. What we don't know is how these bozons actually condense to make this field. And what is out there at the moment, only nature knows. If i was really confident that i knew what it was, i wouldn't be having this conversation. I'd been writing that paper down myself and hoping it didn't take forty eight years to prove it right. Er, so is that soer, but at a more pragmatic level, what are the immediate things that you want to do? And we've discovered the higgs bows on
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