Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Concept

physical phenomenon in which the vacuum expectation value of a field is not invariant under a symmetry of the action, so that a symmetry present at high temperatures is broken at low temperatures

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Graphic talk about the universe – Public lecture by Dr. Clifford Johnson

Graphic talk about the universe – Public lecture by Dr. Clifford Johnson

Fermilab

A concept related to the Higgs mechanism and the origin of mass in elementary particles, illustrated with an analogy involving 'Paradise Lost'.