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Old 24-08-2011, 10:57 AM
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That it would....it means you're going to have to find another cause for inflation, for a start. Considering it was the supposed appearance of the Higgs which broke the EW symmetry and drove inflation, not having the Higgs will mean they'll have to find something else to explain inflation and why anything has mass, at all.

Maybe one of the Higgsless models??
The EW theory has successively predicted neutral currents, and the W and Z bosons, all based on a Higgs mechanism for symmetry breaking.

If the Higgs mechanism is wrong, the theory has been able to fluke the predictions.

That is more incomprehensible than the theory itself, considered to be one of the most mathematically challenging theories around.

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