The question on the top of my mind right now is: of what significance is the paper by Peter Higgs in 1964 that established the need for a scalar field to account for the symmetry breaking massive bosons implied by the weak interaction of beta decay?
That original 1964 paper by Higgs is what established the need for the so-called blasphemously-named "God Particle." The topic of my talk next month in Prague is going to be essentially: why physics be absorbed for seventy years in the minutiae of beta decay, all the while pretending it is seeking out the fundamental laws of the universe? The room might be throwing tomatoes at me by the end of the talk. At least I'll have fresh fruit for dinner.
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