Recent content by DonBonbon

Thanks...I actually could find only the 19 October publication, that of July 27, I could not found online. It was not that obvious to me however - does Higgs stated his intention to show that Goldstone vector boson can acquire mass under gauge fields as well? i.e. does he say something like...

Layman, I have a problem to understand the Higgs' motivation back then at 1964. The Higgs as I understand was postulated to explain how spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetry takes place in nature, which in turn explains why other elementary particles have mass. This all make perfect sense...