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To: Physicist
Above the electroweak breaking scale, you have W1, W2, W3 and B, which are the fundamental bosons; below that scale, you have W+, W-, Z0, and the photon, which are mixtures.

Ahh, then there are no fundamental particles, everything is a mixture of massless things and the Higgs boson which is also rather elusive?

107 posted on 06/20/2005 1:56:17 PM PDT by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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To: AndrewC
Ahh, then there are no fundamental particles,

Perhaps. We don't know, yet.

everything is a mixture of massless things

Masslessness is more elegant, more mathematically pure, so I would expect truly fundamental particles to be massless, yes. But that's OK; after all, photons are massless.

and the Higgs boson which is also rather elusive?

The Higgs boson is also a by-product of electroweak symmetry breaking.

108 posted on 06/20/2005 2:06:06 PM PDT by Physicist
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