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“The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.”

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Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs is a renowned physicist born on May 29, 1929, in Scotland, United Kingdom. He is best known for his work on the Higgs mechanism, which explains how particles acquire mass. Higgs's contributions have been revolutionary in the field of particle physics, leading to the discovery of the Higgs boson. more

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