On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 12:37:59 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > On Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 10:43:39 PM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> In what way does the Standard Model imply the existence of the Higgs >> Boson? TIA. >> > > > > The "Higgs boson" is already a component of the Standard Model. > > The Standard Model includes members of several classes of elementary > particles: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model#Particle_content > > The Higgs boson > plays a unique role in the Standard Model > is a key building block in the Standard Model > > So the Higgs boson is already there in the Standard Model. > > The Standard Model is one big mess. > > @philipthrift >
What's a "mess", if anything, is our understanding of how this system of particles came into being. If you look at the quark masses, it's hard to imagine some unifying principle for their origins. It seems more a result of some random generating process. We have little to no clue what caused the BB, what started and ended (if it did) inflation, or why the Higgs Field turned on, and so forth. AG > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1cf157b9-81ad-4941-8171-cb20534da657%40googlegroups.com.
