athelstanent: (Knight)
BurleyBoar ([personal profile] athelstanent) wrote2006-03-24 11:15 pm

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I've had many people tell me I'm smart over the years... I consider myself stuipid because I want to be able to parse and understand things like this

"In subsequent publications, the authors showed that the London moment
can be interpreted as a consequence of a photon gaining mass inside the
superconductor via the Higgs mechanism due to the breaking of gauge
symmetry."
- from http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603033

This is was I dreamed of growing up by reading every popular physics book I could find.

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