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When Do Quanta Pass Through the Higgs Field? What is a Higgs Boson Before Excitation

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When Do Quanta Pass Through the Higgs Field? What is a Higgs Boson Before Excitation
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RE: When Do Quanta Pass Through the Higgs Field? What is a Higgs Boson Before Excitation
June 23, 2017 at 5:55 pm
(June 23, 2017 at 5:52 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:
(June 23, 2017 at 5:36 pm)Alex K Wrote: Did you know that you need to burn several hundred planks of wood to generate the energy equivalent of one Planck mass?

Or just one really big one?

Sorry, since you also threw in excitation I'm stuck on Higgs priapism.


(bold mine) Puts me in mind of a riddle I heard as a kid:

Q: How many balls of yarn would it take to reach from the Earth to the Moon?

A: (obviously) One, but it would have to be REALLY big.

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RE: When Do Quanta Pass Through the Higgs Field? What is a Higgs Boson Before Excitation - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - June 23, 2017 at 5:55 pm

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