Hip Hip Hooray
Hooray Hooray for Higgs!
All best wishes, gratitude, and
veneration for Peter Higgs, whose “Higgs Boson Field Theory” has been affirmed.
It is especially moving that Higgs should be British,
a man of an era that saw British culture’s very life nearly crushed for the
second time in half a century by German aggression and that saw Britain’s
superb schools and research universities savaged by Thatcherism.
As the clip noted below may begin to suggest, he is
the Standard Model of the sort of modesty, humor, and patience that enabled him
to live with grace into his 80s and see his intellectual imagination
wonderfully vindicated. Like Newton a hero of his times, he’s helped make
everything so very much more interesting.
http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/higgs/life-boson
In honor of Peter Higgs and the enormous gang of
colleagues who found his boson, Saturday, July 7, is
INTERNATIONAL KISS A PHYSICIST DAY!
Watch
for a special post on How to Spot a Physicist.
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