Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "What Now For The Higgs Boson?" video.

  1. Find the video about fields, and you'll understand why it is so weird compared to the other fields EM field, Strong and weak fields, gluon fields, etc. It's rest energy is above 0. All other fields have a 0 rest energy, in order for the field to get excited, it requires something to pump energy into it. The Higg's field actually goes down in energy level when its in the presents of other field excitations (particles) that interact with the Higg's field. My understanding the Higg's field transfers its above 0 rest energy to other particles (excitations of other fields), and that is where the fundamental mass of particles come from. Higg's field is weird, it's springy with energy, nothing there it holds energy, something there it transfers some of it until the object isn't there and springs back to being at a higher rest energy than 0.
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  2. +Christopher Williams That's true about the sub-atomic particles get their mass, but subatomic mass is scaled up through the other interactions. Without the particle's individual mass, you no longer have the other interactions to hold particles together strong force or even the EM force. So any thing in a Higg's vacuum would probably accelerate the speed of light, we'd see it as vaporizing into energy as atomic nucleus would rip apart, and chemical bonds would rip apart all releasing large amounts of energy. Those interactions that scale up our mass at the macro level would transform to energy.
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