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How the Higgs Field (Actually) Gives Mass to Elementary Particles | Quanta Magazine

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A stronger Higgs field makes the elementary particles vibrate at higher frequencies, thus raising their masses.

The more rapidly a stationary particle vibrates, the greater its mass.

The fact that resonance lies at the foundation of reality is a source of delight and amazement for me personally.

The Higgs field creates a restoring effect on other elementary fields that changes the way they vibrate.

The stronger the gravitational field, the more powerful the restoring effect and the higher the pendulum’s resonant frequency.

Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider confirms that this is indeed what the field does.

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