Friday, October 11, 2013

HIGGS FIELD AND BOSON: A METAPHOR

The vacuum is not such, is like a field 
of virgin snow that invites to explore 
and this can be done in various ways:

a very fast one is traveling on skis;
an intermediate is stepping on rackets,
and one slower sinking into the snow;
a body can go faster or slower
depending on how it interacts
with the medium in which it is based.

So a body that exhibits a mass 
is not its own but rather it derives 
from the kind of substrate interaction 
when running into the packed vacuum
(like the traveler with that of the snow):

if such an interaction is very intense 
as that of who is sinking in his footsteps 
going slower, a large mass is assigned, 
the intermediate that advances on snowshoes 
guess what: will have an intermediate mass, 
and as to the other one that glides using skis,
obtains a value of zero or low mass.

Therefore mass is not something ontological 
but it is just the result of exchanges 
between the object and the field where it travels: 
the "Higgs Field" that permeates the vacuum
and provides inertia to the particles;
the "Higgs Boson" are then those snowflakes
(in each one of their beautiful crystals)
that to my boots adhere more or less.



© albertotrocóniz / 13
Text: from "SCIENTIFIC NOTEBOOK"
Image: from "FOTOFILTERED”

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