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Originally Posted by sjastro
No a Higgs field is not composed of HBs much like an electromagnetic field is not composed of photons. When the field is perturbed through vacuum fluctuations the bosons come into existence.
Higgs bosons cannot travel at C as they have mass.
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Steven
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Alex...think of a field in this way....imagine the flat surface of a pond being a field, stretching out in all directions. Doesn't matter if it's moving or not, the "field" is always there. Now, if you drop a stone in the pond and watch the ripples move out from their point of origin, the ripples can be likened to the particles, each ripple representing a particle and the size of the ripples representing different particles or different energy levels of the one type of particle. Once the disturbance dissipates, the particles disappear but the field remains.