The Higgs Boson, Part II: What is Mass?
What is mass and what does it have to do with the Higgs Boson? Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uh5mTxRQcg Also, explore a map of the big bang! http://www.bigbangregistry.com MinutePhysics...
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Let's cut to the chase: How does the Higgs field "give" particles mass? (and to be clear,we're talking about the Higgs field and NOT the Higgs Boson, which is merely an excitationleftover after the process we're about to explain. But I digress…back to mass!)To begin, we need to know what we even mean by "mass" - so we'll head the other directionand talk about what it means to be massless: This may sound crazy, but the defining featureof any particle without mass is that it travels at the speed of light. In fact, if we're honestit should really be called the "speed of massless particles," but since the first massless particleswe knew about were photons of light, the nam...
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Let's cut to the chase: How does the Higgs field "give" particles mass? (and to be clear,we're talking about the Higgs field and NOT the Higgs Boson, which is merely an excitationleftover after the process we're about to explain. But I digress…back to mass!)To begin, we need to know what we even mean by "mass" - so we'll head the other directionand talk about what it means to be massless: This may sound crazy, but the defining featureof any particle without mass is that it travels at the speed of light. In fact, if we're honestit should really be called the "speed of massless particles," but since the first massless particleswe knew about were photons of light, the nam...
