Noodles141
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I know this isn't to do with electronics physics but i'm sure a lot of you have become interested in the higgs and i would like to talk about it a bit as non of my friends are actually that interested in it, architect don't really understand physics and well don't get me started on psychologists,the people in my electronics course don't even know much about this.
what i want to pose is a question or two and you discuss what you think would happen or the correct answer is and we see where it goes.
first question. The supposed theory about the higgs field is that certain particles that move through this higgs field get what we call mass by the fact that the are slowed down in this higgs field and absorb some of the energy in the field? What if a particle that would normally interact with the higgs field when moving through it where to not move at all and be completely stationary in this higgs field. Could it become massless since it is not moving and therefore not absorbing any energy from the higgs field that slows it down?
my view is it could theoretically since my understanding is the particle needs to be moving in the field, think of an electron in a magnetic field, it is only affected when it is in motion. So therefore we could make a massless object by making it completely still even down to the particle level. Now this posses a second question.
If we were to create a massless object like stated above, would it be affected by earths gravity?
This one i'm not to sure about since I've had some difficulty with gravity when it gets beyond the norm. What i understand is that the law of universal gravitation only applies to objects with low values from the outcome of this equation. so on earth it applies. If we mad a massless particle somehow, then we threw it up, would it travel like light which has no mass even though this object has volume.
last question which is more about the theory itself and something i would like to know, How does the higgs boson and the higgs field relate to gravity and will it help explain gravity in any way or is that still a mystery to us?
what i want to pose is a question or two and you discuss what you think would happen or the correct answer is and we see where it goes.
first question. The supposed theory about the higgs field is that certain particles that move through this higgs field get what we call mass by the fact that the are slowed down in this higgs field and absorb some of the energy in the field? What if a particle that would normally interact with the higgs field when moving through it where to not move at all and be completely stationary in this higgs field. Could it become massless since it is not moving and therefore not absorbing any energy from the higgs field that slows it down?
my view is it could theoretically since my understanding is the particle needs to be moving in the field, think of an electron in a magnetic field, it is only affected when it is in motion. So therefore we could make a massless object by making it completely still even down to the particle level. Now this posses a second question.
If we were to create a massless object like stated above, would it be affected by earths gravity?
This one i'm not to sure about since I've had some difficulty with gravity when it gets beyond the norm. What i understand is that the law of universal gravitation only applies to objects with low values from the outcome of this equation. so on earth it applies. If we mad a massless particle somehow, then we threw it up, would it travel like light which has no mass even though this object has volume.
last question which is more about the theory itself and something i would like to know, How does the higgs boson and the higgs field relate to gravity and will it help explain gravity in any way or is that still a mystery to us?