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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
Okay, it's a never ending battle and your work is never done. But I think the answer to these questions will go a long way toward helping me create a cinematic picture.

1. If the higgs field is everywhere, then particles interact with it whenever they are exposed to it. But when are they exposed to it? How does it interact with the particles in the interior of a solid body, e.g. a plank of wood?
2. A higgs boson is one that has reached excitation. So what is it when it has not reached excitation?
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RE: When Do Quanta Pass Through the Higgs Field? What is a Higgs Boson Before Excitation
Wake up Alex!
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RE: When Do Quanta Pass Through the Higgs Field? What is a Higgs Boson Before Excitation
(June 23, 2017 at 12:22 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: 2. A higgs boson is one that has reached excitation. So what is it when it has not reached excitation?
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RE: When Do Quanta Pass Through the Higgs Field? What is a Higgs Boson Before Excitation
It's not me waking up that's the problem, it's getting both girls to sleep at the same time.
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RE: When Do Quanta Pass Through the Higgs Field? What is a Higgs Boson Before Excitation
1) The higgs field permeates everything, there is nothing presently known to us that could shield it. It would require something like the wall of a false vacuum bubble to shield it, or temperatures many orders of magnitude above anything in nature. When a particle such as the electron moves, it ever so often feels a little tug by the higgs field changing the way it propagates, thus being forced to travel below the speed of light. Same for the quarks and electrons in a plank of wood. If those electrons didn't regularly interact with the higgs field, they would lose their mass
and matter would be annihilated.

2) The higgs boson hasn't reached an excitation - it IS the excitation.
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RE: When Do Quanta Pass Through the Higgs Field? What is a Higgs Boson Before Excitation
Ya just had to use plank(planck) and wood in the same sentence.

It's gonna take a while for my brain to reset.
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RE: When Do Quanta Pass Through the Higgs Field? What is a Higgs Boson Before Excitation
Did you know that you need to burn several hundred planks of wood to generate the energy equivalent of one Planck mass?
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RE: When Do Quanta Pass Through the Higgs Field? What is a Higgs Boson Before Excitation
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When the higgs field has eaten quanta with a large vindaloo.

Quote:What is a Higgs Boson Before Excitation

Flaccid.

(I know this comes as a shock, but I know bugger all about physics)

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(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.
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RE: When Do Quanta Pass Through the Higgs Field? What is a Higgs Boson Before Excitation
(June 23, 2017 at 5:52 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.

I don't know what Peter would say to that (he is 88 years old after all)
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