Breaking symmetry, breaking ground
arXiv:1612.03192 · doi:10.1088/1751-8113/49/41/411001
Abstract
I give a short commentary on a seminal article by T W B Kibble in 1976, "Topology of cosmic domains and strings".
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