Gratuitous Congress Bashing

The particle is named for the University of Edinburgh physicist Peter Higgs, who was one of six physicists -the others are Tom Kibble, the late Robert Brout, Francois Englert, Gerry Guralnik, and Dick Hagen - who suggested that a sort of cosmic molasses pervading space is what gives particles their heft. Particles trying to wade through it gather mass the way a bill moving though Congress gains riders and amendments, becoming more and more ponderous.

From the Times.