I don't think accusations of "creative cookery" would be justified really. It's clear that a SU(2) x U(1) gauge theory perfectly describes the weak interaction and electromagnetism. Since experiment shows that the W and Z bosons are massive, and direct mass terms in the lagrangian would break the SU(2) invariance, the most parsimonious way to include the masses in the theory is the Higgs' mechanism.
Sure, it might not be the way that nature does things, but until that can be demonstrated experimentally, by Occam's razor the Higgs' mechanism is a better explanation than anything more exotic.
Sure, it might not be the way that nature does things, but until that can be demonstrated experimentally, by Occam's razor the Higgs' mechanism is a better explanation than anything more exotic.
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
