gourimoko
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Well, it's 6:17 A.M. and I've watched the press conference. I'm going to sleep. Thought this was worthy of discussion. For anyone interested, the Higgs mechanism of the Standard Model is the process by which otherwise massless particles are imbued with mass. Without it, there could be no atomic or molecular interaction; the entire universe would consist of nothing but energy distributed uniformly around it's perimeter.
Thanks to the Higgs mechanism (it's quanta/force carrier being the Higgs boson), we have the Universe we see today and life can exist.
Congratulations to the team at CERN!
Thanks to the Higgs mechanism (it's quanta/force carrier being the Higgs boson), we have the Universe we see today and life can exist.
Congratulations to the team at CERN!