In classical Japanese puppet theater, "Bunraku", puppets are
manipulated by human operators in black suits and hoods, which make
them symbolically invisible.
The Higgs field in the universe is
considered to act somewhat in a similar manner as such an operator: It
fills the entire universe and creates "the mass"(*) of elementary
particles.
However, it is totally invisible in a conventional sense.
Though the existence of the Higgs-field is one of the most important
predictions in modern physics, so far the Higgs field has been
completely evading experimental detection.
Experiments in GLC will strip the hood of the Higgs-field and reveal
its identity.
(*) Mass is a physics term of the concept which is often called "weight" in non-technical language.
Last modified: Thu Jun 17 16:10:24 JST 2004