Thanks for the clarification, so if we should understand the inertial mass results only for a small fraction from the Higgs mechanism, then why is the higgs mechanism presented as at the origin of mass ? binding energy (for quarks in hadrons) also results in inertial mass. does the higgs...
Thanks for the explanations. So the current knowledge on Higgs mechanism is only a why but would not give any understanding on the very nature of mass as a condensate of energy. right?
the nuclear force that maintains compound nuclei is residual compared to mass of nucleus. A fission typically releases 200 Mev (0,1%) for a typical total nucleus mass of 200000+ MeV (even more for Uranium/Plutonium). I do not see how this relates to my questions.
I am still waiting for answers...
It is unclear from the sentence above whether the mass preexist to the interaction with Higgs or is a consequence of Higgs interaction. What do you mean exactly by mass "charge" versus mass? We can read from physicists that mass would not be an intrinsic property of particle but the result of...
When you say the "result", yet we need to define the process a mass acquisition. As I have heard on July 4th from the director general of CERN or other person sitting near him, the Higgs mechanism is not really a mass acquisition per se by particles, it is the interaction thus the coupling to...
After having read a number of articles about the potential discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN, I am wondering how the "mass effect" generation by the Higgs mechanism can coexist with gravitation as gravitation has been since Newton tightly coupled with the concept of mass.
I develop below...