Frank Close, "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass" (Basic Book, 2022)
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Soer We Nowbi Higs - Part Two
Soer we nowbi higs basically disappears almost from his own story, and others take it up. It's clear to everybody in early seventies that thanks to toft's work, using this particular thing, we've now fd, found the way forward. The mass of these things is predicted to be nearly a hundred times heavier than the mass of a hydrogen atom. By the 19 nineties, it's become clear that the zed boson looks as if it really ought to exist. But to produce it, we're going to have to have a machine far more powerful than anything we currently got. What happened in state-of-the-art colliding machines was no
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