
Would the Universe be different with a zero Higgs field?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Hicks Boson and the Forces That Exist in the Universe
We are imagining a universe today where the Hicks field is zero. The effect of that is to give particles the feeling that they have mass. If you take away the Hicks field, or at least just make it zero, then particles wouldn't feel like they had mass. They would move through the universe without mass and be split into left-handed and right-handed versions.
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