
Would the Universe be different with a zero Higgs field?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Hicks Boson Modifies Electricity, Magnetism and the Weak Force
Without the Hicks field, you have two different forces. We call them hybrid charge forces and isospin forces. And so somehow the Hicks boson modifies both of them. It takes particles of these other sort of pure forces, mixes them up together to give us the photon,. But it's not equal about it. It leaves the photon with no mass, but it gives the W's and the Z a lot of mass. So it changes electricity and magnetism and the weak force in very different ways.
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