RE: Does the Higgs Boson Enforce the CCosmic Speed Limit
July 22, 2017 at 6:59 pm
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2017 at 7:02 pm by Alex K.)
(July 22, 2017 at 6:55 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(July 22, 2017 at 3:56 pm)Alex K Wrote: No, the velocity or acceleration of a quantum does not change its mass or its exposure to the higgs field as far as we know. The logic is strictlyWe don't seem to be disagreeing. Your train of logic is what I was trying to say minus acceleration increasing higgs exposure. I didn't mean to suggest that accellleration increases mass of and by itself.
more exposure to the higgs field -> more mass -> more resistance to acceleration,
not the other way...
the end postulation is that the higgs field is the reason nothing can travel faster than light.
Let's say it's one reason - if there were no Higgs field, the strong interaction would still give several particles masses, but they would be a thousandfold smaller. Still, there would be massive particles. My masters thesis advisor has written an entire series of papers exploring what the world would look like without the Higgs field.
https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3958
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