Why are the Higgs field and the electroweak field so closely related?
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An obvious difference between the two ways of thinking about it you mention is that in the case of the Higgs mechanism, there is an observable particle excitation of the field associated with it, which was found recently. Furthermore it should be noted that the Higgs mechanism only concerns the mass generation of some elementary particles. The mass of composite particles like hadrons is largely due to strong interactions, which are not related to the Higgs.
The idea of fields spanning the universe is not unique to the Higgs field. It is the principle that underlies quantum field theory which describes all particles of the standard model. I suggest that you acquire some profound knowledge on the subject in books by Zee or Srednicki.
The reason that mass is generated by the Higgs field can be traced back to the spontaneous breaking of a symmetry. There is no such symmetry that might explain the generation of charge in a similar way.
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An obvious difference between the two ways of thinking about it you mention is that in the case of the Higgs mechanism, there is an observable particle excitation of the field associated with it, which was found recently. Furthermore it should be noted that the Higgs mechanism only concerns the mass generation of some elementary particles. The mass of composite particles like hadrons is largely due to strong interactions, which are not related to the Higgs.
The idea of fields spanning the universe is not unique to the Higgs field. It is the principle that underlies quantum field theory which describes all particles of the standard model. I suggest that you acquire some profound knowledge on the subject in books by Zee or Srednicki.
The reason that mass is generated by the Higgs field can be traced back to the spontaneous breaking of a symmetry. There is no such symmetry that might explain the generation of charge in a similar way.
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The Higgs field gives mass to the W and Z bosons which comprise the "weak force". If those bosons didn't have mass, they would act like photons, so the weak force would be like electromagnetism.
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