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What if our particles were different?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Photon Has No Mass, So It Has to Go at the Speed of Light, Right?

Because it has no mass, it has to go at the speed of light. That's one of the rules hof the universe. The photon is part of a quadrupilat of particles that all do interact with the higgs field. And if the Higs wasn't around, they would all be massless. But theHigs makes three of them heavy. It turns the z and the two ws into heavy particles. Then i's sort of used up. Its in one force called the electro weak force. Which is why the weak force is weak. So we actually have an example in our universe of like a massive version of the photon.

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