Re: What composes the mass of an electron?

On 11/04/2024 08:22 AM, kazu wrote:

rhertz wrote:

A definition of mass, as found in Google:
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"Mass is a measurement of the amount of matter or substance in an
object.
It's the total amount of protons, neutrons, and electrons in an object."
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something to do with higgs field? i dont know, its beyond my current
knowledge, but this higgs field permeates the entire universe and
similar to an electromagnetic field, particles interact with it and take
on the burden of mass.
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No it doesn't, the field theory's "classical fields" and "potential
fields" each "fill the entire space of space-time", and coincide,
yet "Higgs' field" is _not_ a classical field and "Higgs' classical
field" is _not_ Higgs' field.
If you don't know that "Higgs field is not a field", well, ....