Your Mass is NOT From the Higgs Boson
The Higgs Boson is awesome but it's NOT responsible for most of your mass! Thanks to audible.com for supporting this episode: http://bit.ly/ZJ5Q6z The Higgs mechanism is meant to account for...
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Twenty-one grams. That is the mass of all of the electrons in your body if, like me,you weigh about 70 kilograms. Now all of the mass comes from the Higgs mechanism, whichmeans that as your electrons are traveling through space time, they interact with theHiggs field and it is that that gives them their mass. It slows them down and stops themfrom traveling at the speed of light. But most of your mass doesn’t come from theHiggs mechanism. And neither does all of this stuff that you see around you. The mass iscoming from somewhere quite different and that is because most of your mass and mostof this mass comes from neutrons and protons and they are not fundamental particles. Theyare made of constituent particles called quarks. Now the theory that describes quarks and t...
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Twenty-one grams. That is the mass of all of the electrons in your body if, like me,you weigh about 70 kilograms. Now all of the mass comes from the Higgs mechanism, whichmeans that as your electrons are traveling through space time, they interact with theHiggs field and it is that that gives them their mass. It slows them down and stops themfrom traveling at the speed of light. But most of your mass doesn’t come from theHiggs mechanism. And neither does all of this stuff that you see around you. The mass iscoming from somewhere quite different and that is because most of your mass and mostof this mass comes from neutrons and protons and they are not fundamental particles. Theyare made of constituent particles called quarks. Now the theory that describes quarks and t...
