"... the famous particle bears the name of Peter Higgs alone. Over the years, all the prestigious prizes in physics have been awarded to different combinations of Brout, Englert, Higgs, Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble. ... Nambu's insight to apply the concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking to empty space was profound. In the strange quantum world, what we think of as empty space is anything but. Instead, it is a seething soup of particles constantly popping in and out of existence, and it is this structure in the vacuum itself that gives rise to particle masses. The thing that fills the vacuum is what has come to be known as the Higgs field. Some particles interact strongly with this field, others not at all, and it is the strength of the interaction with the HIggs field that determines the fundamental particles' masses."
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