Path: ...!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:42:35 +0000 Subject: Re: What composes the mass of an electron? Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity References: From: Ross Finlayson Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 11:42:20 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-p4unbei8iDhd6S01d49404LtnJ5afj7GMN5Ae9Rtn0ZOVk7kwD7CxIClyWrSBKYpMrK7CikWl7LW8OE!/9bIvBNxxZOSqFqCMwTYQUvt7Q3TOI2Iq6KbQFCflhSyFBcJJosi5FNLerv6MQN30msonhn8Omw= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2094 On 11/04/2024 08:22 AM, kazu wrote: > rhertz wrote: >> A definition of mass, as found in Google: >> >> "Mass is a measurement of the amount of matter or substance in an >> object. >> It's the total amount of protons, neutrons, and electrons in an object." >> > > something to do with higgs field? i dont know, its beyond my current > knowledge, but this higgs field permeates the entire universe and > similar to an electromagnetic field, particles interact with it and take > on the burden of mass. > > No it doesn't, the field theory's "classical fields" and "potential fields" each "fill the entire space of space-time", and coincide, yet "Higgs' field" is _not_ a classical field and "Higgs' classical field" is _not_ Higgs' field. If you don't know that "Higgs field is not a field", well, ....