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Don’t much about quantum physics. Please bear with. Many years back when I was in school, I learned that weight is not primary property of matter but mass is th
by hi41 2y ago
Don’t much about quantum physics. Please bear with. Many years back when I was in school, I learned that weight is not primary property of matter but mass is the primary property of matter. So now mass is not the primary property of matter and it happens because of the interaction with Higgs field? If mass is no longer a primary property of matter, then what is?
- marcosdumay 2y agoHum... Your framing as "the primary property" is bad here, and it looks like all properties appear because of the interaction with some field. (But well, there's a "then explain gravity!" that you can throw at any generic explanation.)
- empath-nirvana 2y agoWeight is a measure of a force on an object due to gravity or acceleration. Mass is a measure of a object's inertia -- it's resistance to change in velocity due to an outside force. Rest mass is a fixed quantity inherent to the object), weight changes based on the environment/reference frame -- your weight is different on the moon, but your mass is the same. Matter is just perturbations in a variety of fields that have complex interactions with each other -- those interactions are what give rise to mass. the higgs field is one of the fields that create mass, most importantly in electrons, but when you measure the mass of any full sized object, almost all of the mass has nothing to do with the higgs field and has to do with the fact that protons are actually balls of quarks and gluons moving very rapidly in a confined space because of their self interactions.