Higgs Discovery Quotes

“The particle’s discovery is tremendously exciting. It’s also inspirational. Let’s just enjoy that for now.”
― Lisa Randall, Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space

“If particles had mass from the get-go, the theory would have been inconsistent and made nonsensical predictions such as probabilities of energetic particles interacting that were greater than one. Some new ingredient was required to allow for those masses. That”
― Lisa Randall, Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space

“Whatever has been found—the Higgs boson, the particular implementation of the Higgs mechanism that seems simplest or something more elaborate—it is almost certainly something very new. The interest from the public and press has been very gratifying, indicating a thirst for knowledge and scientific advances that humanity to a large extent shares. After all, this discovery is part of the story of the universe’s evolution as its initial symmetry was broken, particles acquired masses, atoms were formed, structure, and then us.”
― Lisa Randall, Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space