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What was Higgs' attitude towards his own mechanism?
Higgs invented a mechanism to endow quarks and leptons an W- and Z-particles with mass. If a particle is massless though then how can it be slowed down by interacting with another particle? Maybe the particle gets an effective mass (like a photon…
Deschele Schilder
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Did scientists at some point believe that *everything* is made out of atoms?
Did scientists at some point believe that everything is made out of atoms? Or were atoms always accompanied by other "elementary particles"?
I myself did not realize that there existed other "elementary particles" besides atoms until quite recently.…
Grahm