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… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of supersymmetry, largely because it seems to be the only route by which gravity can be brought into the scheme. It's… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
As a theoretician, I am proud to be part of a counter revolution... discovering that quantum field theory language was not dead and finished… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab. — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle'… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't. — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking's comments. I said one… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960,… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
My first visit to the Large Hadron Collider was in April 2008, before it started up, and CERN had some open days. They were… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for political purposes… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
The growth of our understanding of the world through science weakens some of the motivation which makes people believers. But that's not the same… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
