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Originally Posted by renormalised
There once was a guy named Peter Higgs
Loved his astronomy as well as his figs
Wondered why atoms were so damn heavy
Not one equation to define this he could levy
But one day an idea he saw that appealed
An answer as easy as a scalar field
But to give them some mass he had to arrange
Something as simple as a particle exchange
To tie them down as they whizzed on by
An exchange of energy whilst on the fly
But what could give such a boost by post on
Another particle perhaps, a truly big boson
But how to produce such an enormous mass
Out of this new field it sounded so crass
So instead of resorting to magical trickery
All that it took was some broken symmetry
Hooray and hoorah, Peter became famous
With something so simple it really did shame us
And now there's a particle that we rely the most on
To give us some weight, the Higg's bloody boson!!!
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& that's LESS than one page, too !!
'Cept I don't seem to be able to find out who wrote it ??
Hang on !! .. the small print says something Wald.... ? (I can't make out the rest of it) !
