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Thanks for everyone's help so far, it's been extemely useful for researching my talk.
Whilst doing other research for my talk I came across this on wikipedia: "More specifically, the Higgs boson would explain the difference between the massless photon and the relatively massive W and Z bosons." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
I know that at 10^15K electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force merge to create the electroweak force. But why does the fact that the W and Z boson are different to the photon? Surely that's simply because they're different particles? Or could the Higgs give us an incite as to what these bosons "are."
My main question is, how could the higgs boson "explain the difference between the massless photon and the relatively massive W and Z bosons."?
Thanks,
Jamie
Whilst doing other research for my talk I came across this on wikipedia: "More specifically, the Higgs boson would explain the difference between the massless photon and the relatively massive W and Z bosons." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
I know that at 10^15K electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force merge to create the electroweak force. But why does the fact that the W and Z boson are different to the photon? Surely that's simply because they're different particles? Or could the Higgs give us an incite as to what these bosons "are."
My main question is, how could the higgs boson "explain the difference between the massless photon and the relatively massive W and Z bosons."?
Thanks,
Jamie