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Re: Are quarks fundamental? Do Higgs Bosons exist? Proof?

Area: Physics
Posted By: David Barlow, Private individual, Grad education in Physics/Astrophysics and Comp. Support
Date: Fri Mar 7 21:28:09 1997
Message:

Duncan

Quarks are thought to be fundamental. They where put forward to explain why so many other particles had the properties they had. AS there are only 6 quarks with 2 properties, charge and mass, there is no need to have even more fundamental particles that create quarks. So until some one rewrites the entire field of particle physics, quarks are fundamental particles.

The Higgs Boson has yet to be seen in an accelrator experiment, so they remain purely theoretical, for the moment. If the higgs is not found, a lot of Cosmologists will be very sad I think.

The only usefull homepage I found is at http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/theory/ben/physics/higgs.html. Try putting "higgs boson" through Altavista and follow the links. There are plenty of hits about recent research papers at CERN etc.


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