(June 15, 2017 at 2:56 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Further reading has answered much of my confusion—I think. Is the following description of the Higgs mechanism accurate?
Higgs boson interacts with W boson giving it mass. W boson then interacts with an e.g. electron transforming it into a neutrino.
I got confused thinking of the Higgs boson interacting directly with the e.g. electron giving it mass when the resulting neutrino has no mass. Then trying to understand the relationship between a Higgss boson and a gauge boson from there left me totally discombobulated.
The electron indeed gets its mass from the interaction with the Higgs field as well. The question why precisely the neutrino only has very little mass is not quite settled yet, but could possibly be settled in the future. There are several different scenarios on the table how the small Neutrino masses arise, and we don't know yet which one, if any, is correct.
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
