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seawasp ([personal profile] seawasp) wrote2012-07-03 12:17 pm

Silly Physics question...

Multiple times I've seen the claim that the function of the Higgs boson is to give particles their mass. However, virtually all particles I know of are described as having mass (offhand I can think of only two I have heard described as massless: photons and neutrinos, and the latter I've heard may not be entirely massless).

So does that mean that every particle out there (minus those few) is actually a particle group -- the named particle plus one or more Higgs bosons?

[identity profile] martianmooncrab.livejournal.com 2012-07-03 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
the function of the Higgs boson

I always read that as Bo'sun, and I come up with a totally different visual picture....

[identity profile] gary-jordan.livejournal.com 2012-07-04 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Is there a Higgs coxon?