{"id":187086,"date":"2024-04-10T00:41:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T05:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/broken-symmetries-and-the-masses-of-gauge-bosons"},"modified":"2024-04-10T00:41:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T05:41:15","slug":"broken-symmetries-and-the-masses-of-gauge-bosons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/broken-symmetries-and-the-masses-of-gauge-bosons","title":{"rendered":"Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/broken-symmetries-and-the-masses-of-gauge-bosons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky\u201d<\/p>\n<p>- Peter Higgs, 29 May 1929 \u2013 8 April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Image from: Fermat\u2019s Library.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Higgs\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Higgs<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Phys. Rev. Lett. 13,508 \u2013 Published 19 October 1964.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky\u201d \u2014 Peter Higgs, 29 May 1929 \u2013 8 April 2024. Image from: Fermat\u2019s Library. https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Higgs Phys. Rev. Lett. 13,508 \u2013 Published 19 October 1964.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}