Frank Close, "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass" (Basic Book, 2022)
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Weimberg Acradtes Theory of the Electro Magnetic Force
In 19 71, physicists had found the way to write a theory of the force just analogous to that of the electromagnetic force. It was the clue that these two forces are perhaps somehow unified in a profound way. Higgs's name got attached to a lot of this in a way that peter felt was not justified. He did one key further thing, which dealt with the boson, but that's another story. So that, if you like, is the end of the first part of the book. We've got to the stage where peter higgs has had this brilliant idea once, and he couldn't make it work. But other people have suddenly found the duel that could make
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