Shortly after the big bang, it is thought that many particles had no mass, but became heavy later on thanks to the Higgs field.
Mr. McConnell is a soft-spoken career politician, with virtuoso mastery of political fund-raising and tactics, but he had no mass following to speak of.
Physicist generally believed that each type had no mass, did not transform itself into something else, had a property called "spin" of one-half, and that its spin was left-handed, relative to the neutrino's direction of motion.
Italian automobile manufacturers gained a reputation for highly engineered sports cars and racing cars, but Italy had no mass market and therefore achieved only small-scale production at that time.
It was described as the "jewel of physics", but while it correctly assumed that particles of light had no mass, it left a gap in our understanding of why otherwise similar particles were very heavy.
But New Yorkers from Staten Island raised their voices as well, maintaining that the higher tolls were "monster increases" considering that they, unlike many others, had no mass transit alternatives to the Goethals, Bayonne and Outerbridge Crossing bridges.
