OG7 阅读 Q46

The fifth paragraph of the passage explains how the idea of the Higgs field eventually came to be accepted in the scientific community: "But Higgs persevered (and his revised paper appeared later that year in another journal), and physicists who took the time to study the proposal gradually realized that his idea was a stroke of genius, one that allowed them to have their cake and eat it too. In Higgs's scheme, the fundamental equations can retain their pristine form because the dirty work of providing the particles' masses is relegated to the environment." In saying that the Higgs field came to be accepted because it allowed scientists to "have their cake and eat it too," the author suggests that Higgs's theory was ultimately accepted as fact in part because it allowed physicists to reconcile what had seemed to be contradictory conditions: the harmony of the mathematical equations and the particles' apparent mass.
Choice B is incorrect because the passage does not suggest that the Higgs field was necessarily a concept that could be applied to other problems in physics than those immediately under Higgs's consideration. Choice C is incorrect because the passage does not suggest that Higgs's theory was accepted because it provided an answer to a question that earlier scientists had failed to anticipate. Choice D is incorrect because the passage never addresses any two phenomena being misinterpreted as a single phenomenon.