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The rules of Wikipedia say that it describes the consensus. At
the time when these lines are written, Wikipedia uses the following words
for describing an
important attribute of the Higgs boson: It "explains
why some fundamental particles have mass when, based on the symmetries
controlling their interactions, they should be massless"
(see
here
).
In order to evaluate the Higgs idea, let us point out the following
issues.
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Special Relativity has a very solid experimental basis and it is an
unquestionable theoretical element of contemporary physics.
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The Poincare group and its representations are regarded as
uquestionable elements of the mathematical structure of Special
Relativity
(see [1]; [2], pp. 44-53; [3] pp. 143-150).
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Wigner's work [1]
is described by the following words: "It is difficult to overestimate
the importance of this paper, which will certainly stand as one of
the great intellectual achievements of our century" (see [3], p. 149).
A fundamental conclusion of Wigner's work states that particles may
belong to either of the following distinct categories: massive
particles and massless particles. Massive particles are characterized
by their spin whereas massless particles are characterized by their
helicity. It means that the Higgs idea where a particle is cast
from a massless state into a massive state looks inconsistent with
special relativity in general and with Wigner's analysis of the
Poincare group in particular.
And indeed, a recently published article proves that
the Higgs boson idea
is plagued with many specific contradictions. For details,
click here
.
References:
[1] E. Wigner, Ann. Math. 40, 149 (1939).
[2] S. S. Schweber, An Introduction to Relativistic
Quantum Field Theory (Harper & Row, New York, 1964).
[3] S. Sternberg, Group Theory and Physics
(Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994).
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