D'où vient le "boson" de Higgs ?

The “boson” is derived from Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist from Kolkata who, in 1924, realised that the statistical method used to analyse most 19th-century work on the thermal behaviour of gases was inadequate. He first sent off a paper on quantum statistics to a British journal, which turned it down. He then sent it to Albert Einstein, who immediately grasped its immense importance, and published it in a German journal. Bose’s innovation came to be known as the Bose-Einstein statistics, and became a basis of quantum mechanics. Einstein saw that it had profound implications for physics; that it had opened the way for this subatomic particle, which he named, after his Indian collaborator, “boson.” (The Hindu 05.07.12)

Le boson de Higgs (qui est une particule plus petite qu'un atome) récemment découvert tire son nom de Satyendra Nath Bose,  un physicien indien du début du XXème siècle qui inventa les statistiques quantiques. Son nom est lié à celui d'Einstein.

Mais sutout ne me demandez pas de vous en expliquer plus ! 

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[Marilay]

Je ne te demanderai pas, compte sur moi! ;-) Les sciences et moi, ça n'a jamais beaucoup fusionné!