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Originally Posted by alpal
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.
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That's a bit like saying Newtonian mechanics proves Einstein wrong.
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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.
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And today we know that gravity isn't actually a force, and that Newton failed to accurately predict Mercury's orbit.