Quotes About Higgs

I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.

I'm a fan of supersymmetry, largely because it seems to be the only route by which gravity can be brought into the scheme. It's probably not even enough, but it's a way forward to get gravity involved. If you have supersymmetry, then there are more of these particles. That would be my favourite outcome.

It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960, Jeffrey Goldstone of Cambridge University, who was visiting Cern, heard about it. He then wrote a paper which was conceptually similar to what Nambu had done, but a simpler model.

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

To me, the most exciting thing about the discovery of the Higgs particle is that its existence was predicted fifty years before its discovery through experiment.

The first interview I gave to the press was in 1987 when some people thought a previous machine at Cern, called LEP, might have enough energy to produce the particle.

With the discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the questions has been ticked off the list, but there are many others. We hope that we can find answers or hints for answers to at least some of them. But of course, this is in the hands of nature.

We had to understand things like why the top quark was so heavy and the electron is so light. The Higgs is a big, important step.

There are tiny hints in the data that may indicate that this new particle is not just the minimal Higgs.

signal of particles beyond the Standard Model, helping the Higgs decay into two photons.

Part of the sting was taken away when the American Physical Society awarded its 2010 Sakurai Prize in theoretical physics to Hagen, Englert, Guralnik, Higgs, Brout, and Kibble—in that order, which seems to have been chosen specifically to make it impossible for anyone to complain. (Anderson might have reasonably complained.)

Neutrino masses aren't completely understood as yet, so let's pretend that they don't interact with the Higgs, although the jury is still out.)

As the old Russian joke goes, capitalism was the exploitation of man by man, whereas communism was the reverse.

The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.

We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe.

John Maddox, the editor of the British journal Nature, had immediately suggested that the minister should be told that the Higgs boson can be explained similarly to the way we visualize the W and Z bosons: as carriers of information and effects. They permit us to understand effects that would otherwise look like long-distance action across empty space in the absence of any carrier.