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Charles Brown
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The Higgs bosons has no mass before it travels through the Higgs field. So is this the point where energy becomes mass?
In the standard model, at temperatures high enough so that electroweak symmetry is unbroken, all elementary particles are massless. At a critical temperature, the symmetry is spontaneously broken, and the W and Z bosons acquire masses...Fermions, such as the leptons and quarks in the Standard Model, can also acquire mass as a result of their interaction with the Higgs field, but not in the same way as the gauge bosons...after symmetry breaking, these three of the four degrees of freedom in the Higgs field mix with the W and Z bosons, while the one remaining degree of freedom becomes the Higgs boson – a new scalar particle
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism
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Charles Brown said:The Higgs bosons has no mass before it travels through the Higgs field. So is this the point where energy becomes mass?
The Higgs boson particle is the quantum of the theoretical Higgs field.
The Higgs boson is a subatomic particle that was theorized in the 1960s by physicist Peter Higgs. It is an important part of the Standard Model of particle physics and is responsible for giving other particles their mass through interactions with the Higgs field. Without the Higgs boson, particles would not have mass and the universe would be very different.
The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, and it allowed scientists to produce and observe the Higgs boson for the first time. The discovery was a major scientific breakthrough and confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson.
The Higgs boson is associated with the Higgs field, which is an invisible field that permeates all of space. When particles interact with this field, they gain mass. The Higgs boson acts as a carrier of this interaction, giving mass to the particles that pass through it. This process is known as the Higgs mechanism and explains how energy can be converted into mass.
No, the Higgs boson is not a source of energy. It is a subatomic particle that is responsible for giving other particles their mass. While the concept of mass and energy are closely related, the Higgs boson does not have the ability to create energy on its own.
The discovery of the Higgs boson has confirmed the Standard Model of particle physics and has opened up new possibilities for further research and understanding of the universe. It has also helped scientists to better understand the fundamental nature of mass and the forces that govern the behavior of particles. In the future, this knowledge could lead to advancements in technology and our understanding of the origins of the universe.