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Higgs boson

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Higgs boson by Ciro Santilli 37  Updated 2025-05-29  +Created 1970-01-01
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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.
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