
Was the Higgs boson discovery a triumph or disappointment?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Higgs Boson and Inertia
In the most natural version of our theory, particles shouldn't have any mass at all. And so I guess it confirmed Peter Higgs theory that there is a field called the Higgs field coincidentally,. And it's a field that kind of explains how particles have mass or feel a certain kind of mass - in a sense, inertia. But isn't the interaction with the Higgs Field sort of, it looks like inertia for fundamental particles? For fundamental particles, it answers the question.
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