RE: Massless Elementary Particles = Bodies of Mass?
October 19, 2014 at 9:59 pm
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2014 at 10:09 pm by Alex K.)
Dunno who the guy is. Anyways, I'd also suspect he refers to the fact that in the theory, all the other known elementary particles get their mass from the Higgs field (*). I don't get what the big deal is though, its not like massless particles are somehow less real such that it would warrant the statement that we divided and found nothing.
Mass is first of all the minimal energy cost you have to pay to make a particle. The theory is set up such that there should be no such cost involved in make a single isolated electron, say, but if you turn on the higgs field, making an electron in its presence requires a mimimal extra energy, the mass. The fact that it then propagates more slowly through space is a secondary effect it seems.
The Higgs itself and neutrinos are a mixed bag, for different reasons.
Mass is first of all the minimal energy cost you have to pay to make a particle. The theory is set up such that there should be no such cost involved in make a single isolated electron, say, but if you turn on the higgs field, making an electron in its presence requires a mimimal extra energy, the mass. The fact that it then propagates more slowly through space is a secondary effect it seems.
The Higgs itself and neutrinos are a mixed bag, for different reasons.
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
