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Originally Posted by toonmaster
so.....the creation of higgs boson (which is a fundamental particle?) proves the existance of an 'overlaying field' (higgs field) which interacts with the other fundamental particles (electrons, neutrinos, quarks) and creates gravitational charge (which is mass). do I have this correct so far?
the creation of the higgs boson, was by slamming particles together in the accelerator at a specific speed (or energy) and measuring (over and over again) the energy output signature, which ended up matching the theoretical energy signature of higgs boson?
edit - so a boson is a subatomic particle (not a fundamental particle), but the higgs boson has no spin and zero electric or color charge.
edit2 - the overlying field is just a collection of higgs bosons (creating a scalar field) which react with fundamental particles to create gravitational charge (otherwise measured as mass). I think. If so, very cool.
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The Higgs is both a subatomic particle, and a fundamental particle. Subatomic in that it's smaller than an atom, and fundamental in that it's not believed to be divisible. The last one could change at some point.
According to quantum mechanics every field is composed of force carriers (bosons), like the Higgs. The electromagnetic field can be thought of as a field, or web, or thought of as a bunch of photons everywhere. The strong nuclear force can be thought of as a force binding quarks together, and protons and neutrons together, or as gluons and mesons like pions buzzing around these other particles keeping them together. Even gravity is thought to be composed of gravitons, though they have yet to be discovered.