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CyberWizard
Oct7-09, 10:51 PM
I saw in a documentary, that the higgs mechanism is what gives us mass and that a massless object should be able to move at the speed of light.
Therefore the higgs field is slowing us down.

When i move my arm in the air, am i interacting with the higgs field? Am I assigning movement to the higgs field, just like i can move wather when diving under it?
What powers the higgs field?
If we should move at the speed of light, and we cant even get to 1% of it, what happens to the other 99% of the energy we use to move ourselfs?