• Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      The Higgs mechanism has been theorized to give mass to elementary particles [1]. That is not to say that the total of inertial mass of a non-elementary massive object is due to the Higgs Boson.

      References

      “Higgs Mechanism”. Accessed: 2024-08-13T07:13Z. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism

      the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property “mass” for gauge bosons.