The mysterious particles of physics, part 1
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The Higgs Field Is Impulsioned
If the force was too weak, there would be no elements to make us. And though other things contribute to the mass of our atoms, stephen weinberg told me back in 28 that those atoms couldn't exist without the higs field. If these fields had not turned on, if their average value throughout the universe was simply zero, the elementary particles would be massless. We would still have massive protons and neutrons making up atomic nuclei because they get their mass from the strong force.
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