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Would the Universe be different with a zero Higgs field?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Hicks Boson - What Is It?

The electromagnetic field that we know of today is actually like a distortion of two other fields mixed together by the Hicks boson. Without the Hicks field, you'd have these four particles, we call them the X and the W123. So then you would have a universe without light or with something else that we would call light. I don't know if we'd call one of them light or not."

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