“Joglekar had argued that if the Higg’s particle was absent then
the standard model of fundamental physics would be totally
unreliable beyond a certain energy scale,” says Dr Pankaj Jain,
an IIT Kanpur professor who had worked with him. The theory of
elementary particles is called the Standard Model. This is the
underlying model on which the whole of Physics is based on. It
postulates several elementary fields which are interpreted as
particles in the quantum theory. These include familiar
particles such as electrons and photons, a little less familiar
particles such as quarks, muons, tau leptons and neutrinos.
Quarks bind together to form protons and neutrons. Besides this
it contains gluons, W and Z gauge bosons and the Higgs. The main
problem with the model without Higgs is that all of these
particles have zero mass. “Joglekar however, argued the
existence of Higg’s particle in a different way. In fact when I
was studying a model which did not have Higg’s particle and yet
managed to give masses to all the