GM
A photon travels at the speed of light because it has no mass, in fact because it has no mass, it has no choice but to travel at the speed of light, yet from the photons point of view, no time passes, so its emission from a star 3 million light years away till it hits our eyes 3 million years later are simultaneous events from the photons point of view.
Electrons should also have no mass and therefore orbit the nucleus at the speed of light, however, under observation, they appeared to have an incredibly tiny amount of mass, 9.1093837 × 10-31 kilograms.
This observation made us look for the cause of this mass, which led us to theoreticize the Higgs field. It is the Higgs field, which exists everywhere that gives the electron mass in a theory elegantly called the cocktail party.
The Cocktail Analogy Breakdown:
The Room: The Higgs field.
The Crowd: Higgs bosons (or excitations of the Higgs field).
Massless Particle (Photon): A person whom no one knows enters the room. They move through the crowd instantly, interacting with no one. Because they do not slow down, they are massless (like light).
Massive Particle (Electron): A well-known celebrity enters the room. The guests (Higgs bosons) crowd around them to gossip, slowing them down. The more people cluster around (stronger interaction), the harder it is for the celebrity to move, creating inertia, which we perceive as mass.
The 2023 noble prize, the Attosecond and X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFELs) are used to observe electrons by producing incredibly short pulses (attoseconds 10-18 seconds).
N.B. There have been more seconds in the history of the Universe than there are attoseconds in a second.
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"content": "GM\n\nA photon travels at the speed of light because it has no mass, in fact because it has no mass, it has no choice but to travel at the speed of light, yet from the photons point of view, no time passes, so its emission from a star 3 million light years away till it hits our eyes 3 million years later are simultaneous events from the photons point of view.\n\nElectrons should also have no mass and therefore orbit the nucleus at the speed of light, however, under observation, they appeared to have an incredibly tiny amount of mass, 9.1093837 × 10-31 kilograms. \n\nThis observation made us look for the cause of this mass, which led us to theoreticize the Higgs field. It is the Higgs field, which exists everywhere that gives the electron mass in a theory elegantly called the cocktail party.\n\nThe Cocktail Analogy Breakdown:\nThe Room: The Higgs field.\nThe Crowd: Higgs bosons (or excitations of the Higgs field).\n\nMassless Particle (Photon): A person whom no one knows enters the room. They move through the crowd instantly, interacting with no one. Because they do not slow down, they are massless (like light).\n\nMassive Particle (Electron): A well-known celebrity enters the room. The guests (Higgs bosons) crowd around them to gossip, slowing them down. The more people cluster around (stronger interaction), the harder it is for the celebrity to move, creating inertia, which we perceive as mass. \n\nThe 2023 noble prize, the Attosecond and X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFELs) are used to observe electrons by producing incredibly short pulses (attoseconds 10-18 seconds).\n\nN.B. There have been more seconds in the history of the Universe than there are attoseconds in a second.",
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