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The mysterious particles of physics, part 1

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The Higgs Field

The higgs field explains why things have mass. It tunes how electrons and the atoms of our bodies behave. The idea is that you give this force a tremendous thwap with your protons. This, in some sense, melts theHigs particles to come out of another uniform higgsfield.

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