Lester sue explains the context and implications of latest firmi lab results on the w bozon. The mass, you would think, doesn't have anything to do with interactions. But in quanum field theory, the fimen diagrams are telling you that as that particle is just sitting there, it is interacting with all the other fields around it. Lester sue: "It's very, very possible that the success gauge theories in our low energy, accessible world is not an accident"
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