Equation 4 · Part 1 · The Vacuum Has a History: Symmetry Breaking as Speciation
Symbol phi
What this part means
phi is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
Its job in the formula
phi is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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The passage around this formula
Plotted against the two real components of , this is the shape popularly called the Mexican hat: a local maximum at = 0 , surrounded by a circular trough of degenerate minima at || = / . The sign of the mass term is the entire mechanism. With < 0 the origin would be the unique minimum and there would be…
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