Quotes About Boson

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.

The ordinary photon is a member of the boson family.

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.

I like to call it the scalar boson because this reflects an essential component of the theory - it means that the field the boson travels through has no preferred direction, unlike the way a magnetic field does.

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.

The photon is the first example we will encounter of a gauge boson, a fundamental, elementary particle that is responsible for communicating a particular force.