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Subject: Re: What composes the mass of an electron?
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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, ....