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Higgs Mechanism
Accepted · 1964
- Status
- Accepted
- Year
- 1964
Summary
A field filling all of space that gives the weak force carriers their mass while leaving the photon massless. Predicted in 1964, confirmed at the LHC in 2012 — one of the longest waits in physics.
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