Sunday, June 9, 2024

The Crazy Mass-Giving Mechanism of the Higgs Field Simplified

This is the kind of thing that interests me.  It might not interest anyone else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7dsACYTTXE

There is a fundamental mechanism of nature that we don't understand.  We can only describe the results mathematically.

A field just means that there is a value at every position in space.  All the fundamental particles have fields.   We know that there are fields because subatomic particles behave like waves.  These waves only become particles if they have a sufficient energy.  If the energy is not sufficient, then a "virtual particle" can pop in and out of existence for a microsecond.  This is because empty space is buzzing with vibrating fields.

These fields interact with each other as if the fields are "God's Computer Program" for the laws of physics.

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