First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)

[Alex K]

So basically, everything at it's lowest common denominator, is just a variation of energy of varying frequencies which manifests itself sometimes as "matter".

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Yes. Frequency and Energy are almost synonymous (you go from one to the other by multiplying plancks constant by it)

So the whole universe has zero mass since the building blocks have no mass.
How does the higgs give other elementals mass if they do not occupy space?

The contents of the universe obviously don't have zero mass, not sure what you mean.
The Higgs field which gives the other elementary ptcls mass, has a uniformly distributed nonzero value throughout space. That does the trick.

I know I'm stupid

Aren't we all

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This thread is
a) Fascinating
and
b) Making me feel like ugh ugh cave woman.  

I'm trying hard to follow along, though.

This thread is just a testing ground for my science writer alter ego to try out explanations, so ask away (or to stroke my ego? Or both?). Anything you don't understand is either because i myself don't understand it, or only understand it in terms of maths and/or haven't explained it properly. All reasons to try harder.

p.s. you crush rock with club?