(June 12, 2017 at 7:36 am)Rhondazvous Wrote:(June 11, 2017 at 7:21 pm)Alex K Wrote: 1. Yes it is annihilated. Whatever energy is carried by the W boson is then inherited by the new particle. But the W bosons e.g. causing beta decay are what is called virtual W bosons which do not have to carry all the energy that would usually come with its assigned mass via E=mc^2.
2. The name God particle is stupid because the name in no way adequately represents what the particle does, but primordial soup is ok I think.
3. The higgs boson would be absorbed by the gauge boson and vanish, but that only ç if it is a massive gauge boson.
Thanks Alex. I dearly appreciate your taking the time to answer my questions. This is so cinematic and could be easily turned into a subplot.
Wait till I tell you about sphaleron processes...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
