Your Friday Reading: "Obscurantism"

It's Friday afternoon! Let's look into the archives of physics and pretend we're still working. In 1964, Physical Review Letters published the three cornerstone articles laying down the theory behind the Higgs boson, a proposed new fundamental particle (that would not be found by experimentalists until 2012). LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act. Barry Goldwater ran for president. The Beatles played Ed Sullivan.And while all that was happening, a trend became apparent to Samuel Goudsmit, then the edi...