Mass and light, real world --which permeates AtD

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Mon Apr 7 20:46:05 CDT 2008


Mark,

Can you give me a reference?

Thanks--Page

> The Higgs boson was the professorÂ’s elegant 1964 solution to one of the
> great problems with the standard model of physics – how matter has mass
> and thus exists in a form that allows it to make stars, planets and
> people. He proposed that the universe is pervaded by an invisible field of
> bosons that consist of mass but little else.
>
>   As particles move through this field, bosons effectively stick to some
> of them, making them more massive, while leaving others to pass
> unhindered. Photons, light particles that have no mass, are not affected
> by the Higgs field at all.
>
>
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