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The Higgs Boson: what are the odds?
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RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds?
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.
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
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The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by little_monkey - September 10, 2011 at 7:20 am
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by popeyespappy - September 10, 2011 at 10:50 am
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by little_monkey - September 10, 2011 at 4:04 pm
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by popeyespappy - September 10, 2011 at 4:20 pm
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by little_monkey - September 10, 2011 at 5:04 pm
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by popeyespappy - September 10, 2011 at 5:38 pm
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by little_monkey - September 10, 2011 at 6:46 pm
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by popeyespappy - September 10, 2011 at 7:29 pm
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by downbeatplumb - September 11, 2011 at 5:53 am
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by little_monkey - September 11, 2011 at 8:19 am
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by Darth - September 11, 2011 at 6:10 am
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by leo-rcc - September 12, 2011 at 9:42 am
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by KichigaiNeko - September 11, 2011 at 9:03 am
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by lilphil1989 - September 12, 2011 at 9:14 am
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by little_monkey - September 12, 2011 at 10:34 am
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by Napoléon - September 12, 2011 at 11:26 am
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by little_monkey - September 12, 2011 at 4:12 pm
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by popeyespappy - September 12, 2011 at 8:19 pm
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by little_monkey - September 13, 2011 at 8:31 am
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by lilphil1989 - September 16, 2011 at 6:35 am
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by little_monkey - September 16, 2011 at 3:31 pm
RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds? - by little_monkey - September 17, 2011 at 10:05 am

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