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Charged particles mass before symmetry breaking
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[QUOTE="king vitamin, post: 6035205, member: 134222"] The electric field for massless QED is very different from what you're used to. Specifically, the electric charge will go to zero logarithmically at long distances, so you won't have long-range Coulomb forces. The heuristic behind this is that it becomes "cheap" to create virtual massless particle-antiparticle pairs which screen any charge. Then it takes arbitrarily little energy to add another particle-antiparticle pair. [/QUOTE]
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