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	Gravity and Inertia Redefined \| by Raymond Graudis
		This field may be thought of as a "clustering" of the HF in the vicinity of matter, or as a local polarizing effect that matter would have on the HF.
		The "hypothetical" field described earlier as a clustering of the HF in the vicinity of matter is merely the prosaic gravity field of everyday experience.
		In conclusion, field centrality requires that electromagnetic waves whose source is put in uniform motion, being a combination of electric and magnetic fields, should move through space with the same convective flow which describes the motion of their individual constituent fields in isolation.
	www.geocities.com /perfectfluid (6405 words)

	The Higgs Field vs the Spacetime Metric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The "Higgs field" is therefore the same as the spacetime metric, and the "Higgs boson" is the concentrated binding energy that creates and maintains the dense metric configuration of the massive IVBs.
		The Higgs Field and the Metric of Spacetime
		In the Higgs mechanism, the interaction of a particle with the Higgs field provides the particle's attribute of inertial mass; in my theory, a particle's inertial mass is the consequence of the interaction of the particle's gravitational field with the metric field of spacetime (see also: "A Description of Gravitation").
	home.earthlink.net /~johngowan/higgs.html (3271 words)

	Higgs boson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Higgs bosons are hypothetical elementary particles predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.
		The Higgs mechanism for giving mass particles was actually first proposed in the of solid state physics to explain how particle-like structures in can act as if they had an effective mass.
		Since the Higgs field is a scalar field the Higgs boson has spin zero.
	www.freeglossary.com /Higgs_field (542 words)

	Open Questions: Higgs Physics
		Since the Higgs particle generates the mass of all other particles that couple to it, their mass would depend on their orientation with respect to the Higgs field.) Hence the Higgs particle is a boson, a "scalar" boson, since having spin 0 means that it behaves like a scalar under Lorentz transformations.
		Recall that a basic postulate about the Higgs field was that when the energy of the field is plotted against the strength of the field, the resulting graph has a W shape.
		The Higgs mechanism provides a means of explaining the masses of particles, through their coupling with the Higgs field, without sacrificing mathematical consistency of the standard model.
	www.openquestions.com /oq-ph008.htm (9023 words)

	Higgs boson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics.
		In particular, the acquisition of a non-zero VEV spontaneously breaks the electroweak gauge symmetry, a phenomenon known as the Higgs mechanism.
		One of the neutral and the charged component fields are Goldstone bosons, which are massless and unphysical.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Higgs_boson (1003 words)

	Peter Higgs: the man behind the boson (July 2004) - Physics World - PhysicsWeb
		In the early universe, the Higgs field looked the same in all directions, but this symmetry was spontaneously broken shortly after the Big Bang, in much the same way the perfect symmetry of a pencil standing on its tip is spontaneously broken when the pencil falls over and defines a direction in space.
		Higgs had found a loophole in the proof of Goldstone and co-workers and wrote a short paper called "Broken symmetries, massless particles and gauge fields" that was received by the editors of Physics Letters at CERN on 27 July.
		Higgs was able to show that the introduction of a subtle form of symmetry known as gauge invariance invalidated some of the assumptions made by Goldstone, Salam and Weinberg in their proof.
	physicsweb.org /articles/world/17/7/6 (1724 words)

	Gravity and Inertia Redefined \| by Raymond Graudis
		This field may be thought of as a "clustering" of the HF in the vicinity of matter, or as a local regimenting effect that matter would have on the HF.
		The field would naturally have its focal point and greatest strength at the center of the particle, and gradually taper off with distance from that center in accordance with the Law of Universal Gravitation.
		In conclusion, field centrality requires that electromagnetic waves whose source is put in uniform motion, being a combination of electric and magnetic fields, should move through space with the same convective flow that describes the motion of their individual constituent fields in isolation.
	www.wbabin.net /physics/graudis.htm (4119 words)

	Origins: CERN: Ideas: The Higgs Boson
		This clustering effect is the Higgs mechanism, postulated by British physicist Peter Higgs in the 1960s.
		This is something like an electromagnetic field, in that it affects the particles that move through it, but it is also related to the physics of solid materials.
		The same might be true in the Higgs field: a particle moving through it creates a little bit of distortion -- like the crowd around the star at the party -- and that lends mass to the particle.
	www.exploratorium.edu /origins/cern/ideas/higgs.html (903 words)

	Higgs: the Velcro Boson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Higgs field is a particularly simple one - it has the same properties viewed from every direction, and in important respects in indistinguishable from empty space.
		Thus physicists conceive of the Higgs field being "switched on", pervading all of space and endowing it with "grain" like that of a plank of wood.
		The Higgs field enables us to view these apparently unrelated phenomenon as two sides of the same coin; both may be described in terms of the properties of the same vector bosons.
	robtdwilson.freeservers.com /UFT/3_Higgs.html (6310 words)

	Higgs
		Higgs field is a matrix out here in which the vibration is occuring.
		Higgs imagined a kind of "fluid" which fills the universe and which affects the motion of particles.
		The Higgs field should have a corresponding particle, the Higgs particle or Higgs boson.
	www.normanallan.com /Sci/higgs.htm (131 words)

	ToyHiggs.nb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The model shows what mass is and how it comes from the Higgs field, and it allows estimates of the masses of the electron, W boson, and Higgs boson based on fundamental principles and a few naive assumptions.
		is the velocity field, that is, at any given time it is a binary field that has one value for a stationary point and another value for a point that moves at the speed of light.
		The Higgs boson represents fluctuations in the local value of the Higgs field, which in this discrete model identifies each point as either a stationary point or a speed-of-light point.
	home.earthlink.net /~dolascetta/ToyHiggs.html (2661 words)

	Higgs boson Summary
		The inclusion of the Higgs field in the standard model is an elegant solution of this problem.
		Most fields have the value zero when no particles of that field type are around; but the Higgs field has a nonzero constant component that exists even when no Higgs particles are in the vicinity.
		One of the particles is the neutral Higgs boson, but the other three are consumed by the W and Z bosons when these bosons acquire mass.
	www.bookrags.com /Higgs_boson (1442 words)

	Higgs Field
		Considering that the Higgs Field was named in the 1960s, why all the silence about it.
		The field which connects the contituents of an elementary particle is the strong field ("Strong interaction").
		But the field associated with the strong interaction is not the Higgs field.
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?t=5982 (805 words)

	Higgs for Waldegrave
		In three dimensions, and with the complications of relativity, this is the Higgs mechanism.
		The postulated Higgs field in the vacuum is a sort of hypothetical lattice which fills our Universe.
		The Higgs boson is predicted to be just such a clustering in the Higgs field.
	www.hep.ucl.ac.uk /~djm/higgsa.html (532 words)

	The Higgs Boson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The theories attribute the symmetry-breaking to a field called the Higgs field, and it requires a new boson, the Higgs boson, to mediate it.
		Now, since the discovery of the top quark, there is tantalizing evidence that the Higgs boson may have energies in the range of a few hundred GeV and therefore within the range of present day accelerators.
		At Fermilab, data from the D0 detector facility is used with the masses of the W and the T quark to estimate the mass of the Higgs boson.
	hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu /hbase/forces/higgs.html (358 words)

	Higgs Fields? - Advanced Physics Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The field content consists of (massless) vector fields in the adjoint representation of the gauge group (therefore, there are four of them) and two massive scalar fields (vector representation of SU(2)).
		My objection to Higgs includes the \'miraculous\' contribution to the effective mass of the Higgs from bosons and fermions having opposite signs,thus the effect of all virtual particles cancels and the mass of the Higgs scalar is not affected by higher energy scales.
		Indeed, the non-zero value of that field, coupled with an interaction term between that field and, say, the electron field, gave a term in the lagrangian which DID respect the symmetries required, but mimicked, at low energies, as a term that was essentially the same as a mass term.
	www.advancedphysics.org /forum/showthread.php?t=514 (1080 words)

	New Scientist: Hunting the higgs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Higgs particle is the quantum of a new field called the Higgs field, which was zero in the very early Universe, but turned on as the expanding Universe cooled-just as the motion of the Earth emerged when it condensed out of the dust and gas surrounding the early Sun.
		Thus the motivation for proving the existence of Higgs particles is as strong or stronger than ever, and there is very good indirect evidence, and a hint of direct evidence, that they do in fact exist.
		The LHC will cover the whole range of Higgs particle masses up to 200 GeV and far beyond, and should find the Higgs particle, or whatever does the job that it is supposed to do, whether it's the standard model theory of the Higgs particle that proves to be correct or one of its competitors.
	www.umich.edu /~mctp/media/huntinghiggs.html (2299 words)

	What is a Higgs Particle?
		The Higgs particle is as yet a hypothetical particle invoked to explain why the carriers of the electroweak force (the W and Z bosons) have mass.
		Quantum electrodynamics requires the photon to have zero mass (which is good because indeed it does), but early attempts to develop and electroweak theory also required the bosons to be massless, (which is bad because then they would be as abundant as the photon in the universe, which indeed they are not).
		If there is an otherwise undetectable field filling the universe (now called the Higgs field), it could have associated with it a previously unknown kind of boson, the Higgs particle, which has mass.
	www.physlink.com /Education/AskExperts/ae304.cfm (358 words)

	Physics: Mass, the Higgs boson, and the Higgs field
		The Higgs particle was dubbed "The God Particle" in the title of a book by Dr. Leon Lederman, a Nobel Prize Laureate in physics.
		The godlike importance ascribed to the Higgs particle (or equivalently, the Higgs field) is because the
		Without the full context of the theoretical models, all attempts to explain the Higgs field are simplistic, and yet, it seems important to grasp its meaning since this field is so fundamental to our physical universe.
	www.p-i-a.com /Magazine/Issue10/Physics_10.htm (925 words)

	Higgs field
		The way out was what we now call the "Higgs mechanism", by which particles acquire their masses via their interaction with the Higgs field.
		The reason people worked out the higgs mechanism is not the prediction of the mass values, but the respect of the symmetries thought to be necessary, because the normal way of putting in masses (just writing a mass term m^2 phi^2) didn't allow the right symmetries.
		Higgs theory seems to be fine to me. It has succesfully been applied in condensed matter, but its relevance in fundamental interactions is not yet established.
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?t=39798 (1434 words)

	Higgs boson concept from the Astronomy knowledge base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Such particles are analogous to the photons that are associated with the electromagnetic field.
		The standard model of particle physics predicts one electrically neutral Higgs particle which has not yet been found, but which will be sought in upcoming particle accelerator experiments.
		The grand unified theories predict many Higgs particles, but they are too massive to be accessible at existing or foreseeable accelerators.
	www.site.uottawa.ca:4321 /astronomy/Higgsboson.html (146 words)

	Research News: New Results Change Estimate of Higgs Boson Mass
		Scientists believe that the Higgs boson, named for Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, who first theorized its existence in 1964, is responsible for particle mass, the amount of matter in a particle.
		According to the theory, a particle acquires mass through its interaction with the Higgs field, which is believed to pervade all of space and has been compared to molasses that sticks to any particle rolling through it.
		The Higgs field would be carried by Higgs bosons, just as the electromagnetic field is carried by photons.
	www.lbl.gov /Science-Articles/Archive/Phys-Higgs-boson-mass.html (914 words)

	HiggsParticle
		The Higgs particle is of critical importance in particle theories and is directly related to the concept of particle mass and therefore to all masses.
		We think that all of space is filled with this field, and that by interacting with this field, particles acquire their masses.
		The Higgs field has at least one new particle associated with it, the Higgs particle (or Higgs boson).
	www.coimbra.lip.pt /atlas/higgspar.htm (249 words)

	Higgs field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Higgs field, named after the British physicist Peter Higgs, is a postulated quantum field, mediated by the Higgs boson, which is believed to permeate the entire universe.
		Its presence is said to be required in order to explain the large difference in mass between those particles which mediate weak interactions (the W and Z bosons) and that which mediates electromagnetic interactions (the photon).
		In the 2002 adaptation of the film Solaris, one of the characters speculates that the strange visitors' existence is possible due to the fact that their atoms are kept together by a Higgs field.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Higgs_field (202 words)

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