Can Boson Fields Absorb Matter?

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Is it possible that boson fields "absorb" matter the same way electrons "absorb" photons, thus explaining why we cannot detect them?
 
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We ceratinly can detect boson fields infact by looking at your screen you are detecting one (the electromagnetic field). I think you mean the Higgs boson field.
 
Whats a Higgs boson field?
 
The Higgs field is the field proposed as the mechanism that gives particles mass, it's a bosonic field.
 
Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles. Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated... Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/quantum-entanglement-is-a-kinematic-fact-not-a-dynamical-effect/ by @RUTA
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