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Apr 16Liked by Alastair Williams

Thx for giving us that info on the Higgs bosin and it's creator. What a likeable felloe he must have been! GRBs are on everyone's short lists for existential threats. We're lucky the 2022 one came from the distance and direction it did- a lot of attenuating factors inherent!

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Apr 17Liked by Alastair Williams

Just popping in to say thank you for all you do to bring us up to date weekly regarding the worlds of space .

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Thanks so much!

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Apr 16Liked by Alastair Williams

Peter Higgs was not a solitary researcher :

The Higgs boson, or BEH boson, is an elementary particle whose existence was independently postulated in June 1964 by François Englert and Robert Brout, by Peter Higgs in August, and by Gerald Guralnik, Carl Richard Hagen and Thomas Kibble.

It makes it possible to explain the breaking of the unified electroweak interaction (EWSB) into two interactions via the Brout-Englert-Higgs-Hagen-Guralnik-Kibble mechanism and thus to explain why some particles have mass and others do not.

We should talk about the BEH boson rather than the Higgs boson

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You are right of course, and thanks for pointing that out. Modern physics is rarely the work of one person, no matter how often the media likes to spin a story of the lone genius.

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The same goes for A. Einstein !

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