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What is Understanding the Higgs Field Mechanics about?
The Higgs field is able to have a non-zero average value throughout the universe, which gives mass to other elementary particles, while other fields do not. This is because: 1) Fermion fields like electrons cannot have a non-zero average due to differences between fermions and bosons. 2) Fields like the photon, gluon, W and Z boson fields cannot have a non-zero average either, otherwise it would violate observed rotational invariance at large scales since they are vector fields that point in directions.
- Author
- Riccardo Castellani
- Language
- EN