I like to read about cosmos theories.
I never understood the Higgs Field.
This author goes through the arguments against -
but you have to buy his book to get the full story of why the Higgs Field is true.
Here's one argument against -
https://profmattstrassler.com/2024/0...up-or-a-crowd/
Theoretical physicist
Matt Strassler
Quote:
2. Against Newton’s First Law of Motion
The phib violates Newton’s first law of motion — that an object in motion not acted on by any force will remain in steady motion. If the Higgs field slowed things down, it could only do so, according to this law, by exerting a force.
But Newton, in predicting the motions of the planets, assumed that the only force acting on the planets was that of gravity. If the Higgs field exerted an additional force on the planets simply because they have mass (or because it was giving them mass), Newton’s methods for predicting planetary motions would have failed.
Worse, the slowing from the Higgs field would have acted like friction over billions of years, and would by now have caused the Earth to slow down and spiral into the Sun.
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cheers
Allan