Talk:The Higgs Boson Observation/@comment-71.65.228.44-20160314235959

Disappointed that you didn't call the show's writers out for that VERY cheap shot at Peter Higgs, having Sheldon describe him as an "accomplished self-promoter". Obviously, some unresolved issues on the part of the show's scientific advisor(s). AFAIK, Dr Higgs has not been perceived by those in the know as a self-promoter; in fact, it's been my understanding that he's always been generous and forthright in acknowledging that numerous other investigators made essentially the same prediction (of a fundamental particle whose field, in interacting with other fundamental particles, confers mass on them) at about the same time, that it's mostly accidental that his name is best known, and that he'd just as soon the particle had never been tagged for him. (Or is that perception merely evidence of HOW accomplished a self-promoter he is?)