Thanks! Briefly this time, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson says the Higgs expectation value is 246 GeV, ie, simply an e-fold increase on the Z boson mass of 91 GeV, ie, Z bosons start to appear at 91 GeV. If they’re being generated by scatter reactions in the Dirac sea/vacuum, they become abundant and dominant in electric interactions (weak force effects) after transversing one mean free path, ie, an energy increase by the factor e. Hence the electroweak symmetry is broken by Z boson effects around the Higgs expectation value!

Mass is provided to all fermions by Z bosons: empirical evidence at links on https://nige.wordpress.com/ Fermions are monopolar electric field sources, but a Maxwellian boson is an electric field dipole; one complete wave cycle (one photon) in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Light-wave.png contains positive electric field at one end and negative at the other. This means that slower than light (massive) Z bosons can be polarized like dipolar molecules, by just rotating. Gravity is the very weak residual electric field effect between dipolar bosons. For a fermion to have mass, it couples to massive bosons.

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nc

The Higgs field sounds very nice to someone wanting causal mechanism to understand what is going on, until you see that a single Higgs boson would apparently be problematic.

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There are over 500 US establishments which manufacture non-chocolate confectionery products. These employ over 22,200 people and ship over $7 BILLION of their goods a year. There are over 1,200 US establishments which manufacture chocolate and cocoa products. These employ over 43,300 people and ship over $12.5 BILLION of their goods a year. California leads the nation in producing these products with Pennsylvania following in second place. The average American consumes over 26 pounds of candy during the year and the typical kid gets the lion’s share of theirs around Halloween time.

California is the leading maker of chocolate products in the US? That alone could be one of the scariest things i discover this Halloween. Maybe there is a good local chocolateer near you, where you could start making Dark Matter bars. And NO!, not the Sees Company. Indeed you could have a entire line created (similar to the endangered species chocolate bars) of physics oriented confections.

I only ask because I want to celebrate when it starts collecting data.

Have you ever read The Real Inspector Hound? by Tom Stoppard?

It’s a play where one of the central questions — which is asked repeatedly throughout the first part of the play — is “Where’s Higgs?” (Of course, Higgs is a drama critic whose second-string replacement has shown up for a play, not a fundamental field, but, hey, what can you say?)

-Rob