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I had a dream last week that scientists would someday be able to remove the Higgs Boson from atoms to make truly weightless materials. I should patent that. As
by unreal37 14y ago
I had a dream last week that scientists would someday be able to remove the Higgs Boson from atoms to make truly weightless materials. I should patent that.
As far as "flying away", from the video embedded in the linked article, you can see the aerographite is barely able to sit still on the table before the rod is introduced - one of them is about to fly away just sitting there. It just "looks" extremely light.
- Locke1689 14y agoThe Higgs boson doesn't provide mass to anything, the Higgs field does. The Higgs field also provides a negligible fraction of the mass of baryons.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoIndeed! The Higgs field provides rest mass to electrons and other fundamental particles. However, most of the mass of, say, a human body comes from the mass of protons and neutrons, and that mass is almost entirely from the kinetic energy of quarks and other nucleon constituents.
- Locke1689 14y agoActually, no. The kinetic energy is a property of the particles (thermal energy, actually), but it does not supply their rest mass. 99% of the rest mass of baryons is due to the strong nuclear force.