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Would the Universe be different with a zero Higgs field?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Higgs Field Changes Everything We Think of as Mass

Higgs bosons don't have any spin. But just to maybe clarify for people you say there are other fields and basically like we're wiggles and fields. Every particle out there including the ones that we're made out of are there because there are fields for it. There's an electron field that permeates the entire universe and that's where electrons come from. Corks with makeup protons and neutrinos also have a fieldBasically every particle is just a ripple in this field. And as you put energy into that field, it can oscillate and wiggle in a way that looks like a particle.

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