Breaking symmetry, breaking ground
History and Philosophy of Physics
2016-12-13 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
I give a short commentary on a seminal article by T W B Kibble in 1976, "Topology of cosmic domains and strings".
Cite
@article{arxiv.1612.03192,
title = {Breaking symmetry, breaking ground},
author = {Mark Hindmarsh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.03192},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Published in J. Phys. A as part of a series of Viewpoints on 50 influential papers, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Physics series. The article is dedicated to Tom, who died while it was being prepared