Higgs’s paper sent to Physics Letters was rejected because– as Higgs later heard – the editors felt that "it was of no obvious relevance to physics".
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Higgs’s paper sent to Physics Letters was rejected because– as Higgs later heard – the editors felt that "it was of no obvious relevance to physics". |
So he decided to write an extra paragraph on possible applications to the strong interaction. "This was not particularly realistic," he recalls, "but it showed that you could break flavour symmetries in this way and generate massive vector mesons. This paragraph is perhaps why I get credited with the so-called Higgs boson."