Meissner effect. Magnetic field lines, represented as arrows, are excluded from a superconductor when it is below its critical temperature.
Paradigm for the Higgs mechanism[edit source | edit]
The Meissner effect of superconductivity serves as an important paradigm for the generation mechanism of a mass M (i.e. a reciprocal range,
where h is Planck constant and c is speed of light) for a gauge field. In fact, this analogy is an abelian example for the Higgs mechanism,[4] through which in high-energy physics the masses of the electroweak gauge particles, W± and Z are generated. The length 
is identical with the London penetration depth in the theory of superconductivity.[5]See also[edit source | edit]
Meissner effect consists of the range of the Fields ( like the magnetic field here) becoming finite, so quantized in the fundamental level, and which amounts to its particles being rendered massive.
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Meissner effect is pretty cool actually. Every time I watch this kind of applications I feel amazing. Imagine the revolution in the transport field for instance, in the future, the new cars will probably use this kind of effects.
What I really like about this effect http://goo.gl/kug93 is it's similarity to the Higgs Mechanism at a phenomenological level. (yeah, I know, Higgs again !). Both of them (Meissner & Higgs effects) describe somehow the generation of the Mass.
In this video, you are probably looking at an indirect evidence of the Higgs Boson! ^^
What I really like about this effect http://goo.gl/kug93 is it's similarity to the Higgs Mechanism at a phenomenological level. (yeah, I know, Higgs again !). Both of them (Meissner & Higgs effects) describe somehow the generation of the Mass.
In this video, you are probably looking at an indirect evidence of the Higgs Boson! ^^
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Explain how this relates to the Higgs Boson please? I'm only a wannabe physicist :p
+Fahad Ayaz Actually, Meissner effect consists of the range of the Fields ( like the magnetic field here) becoming finite, so quantized in the fundamental level, and which amounts to its particles being rendered massive. However, when people unified Electromagnetism with the Weak interaction, the Higgs mechanism was created after to describe what we call now the spontaneous breaking of symmetry , which means the generation of Massive particles(W and Z boson of the weak interaction) from massless particles(photons of the Electromagnetic interaction).
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