Source: /cirosantilli/higgs-boson

= Higgs boson
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Initially there were mathematical reasons why people suspected that all <boson> needed to have 0 mass as is the case for <photons> a <gluons>, see <Goldstone's theorem>.

However, experiments showed that the <W boson> and the <Z boson> both has large non-zero masses.

So people started theorizing some hack that would fix up the equations, and they came up with the <higgs mechanism>.