Mass, Metaphysics and the Higgs Field

 Since the discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson and confirmation of the existence of the Higgs field a lot of work has gone into producing popular explanations of what the Higgs Field is and how it supports the existence of the mass. Metaphysics could be said to be the physics that one doesn’t know. For me the Higgs Field and the way it supports the apparent existence of mass was and remains mostly metaphysics while for some physicists it is less so. There is a video a couple minutes in length that summarizes how the Higgs Field works to produce the appearance that mass exists.

 Photons and other particles of a class called bosons are massless. Photons are the force carrying particles of the electro-magnetic field. There is a duality of articles as waves. A particle might be said to be like the peak of a wave where strength is greatest when observed. Sub-atomic particles acquire mass and existence simply through bouncing around or being slowed down in the Higgs Field from a massless speed of light condition to a slower than light condition with mass created with the acquisition of a third dimension from relativistic effects instead of the  two-dimensional condition of massless particle-waves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASRpIym_jFM

 Mass is an apparent state of massless particles  locked into a steady state of slower-than light being observed by sentient beings like humans embedded in the somewhat illusory or virtual mass of the Higgs Field. I have wondered why gravity also travels at the speed of light- it is the standard speed or normal condition of massless particles, and the answer may be that gravity attracting mass is also an illusory or secondary characteristic of mass existing as a secondary or contingent element within the Higgs Field and that also raises the question of the curvature of space with mass as in the general theory of relativity.

 It is likely that several very complex cosmology issues have very simple explanations when they understood.   One might ask what came first; the Higgs Field or the Universe? Since the Universe is simply mass that seems to exist in the Higgs Field and the Higgs Field encompasses all of known space the Higgs Field seems primary with all of its contingent and secondary apparent qualities of mass, space and time occurring within it.

 What is the Higgs Field in-itself? Field theories account for things like the electro-magnetic field, what empowers the Higgs? The Higgs could exist like a dendrite with information in it between two neurons of God; it really is metaphysics to me.  Creating a virtual Universe with virtual space, virtual gravity, virtual mass and virtual time (itself within relativistic criteria) within a Higgs Field possibly of two dimensional energy seems greater than just adding water to a packet of instanverse. The Higgs energy and energy for-itself are just about imponderable. One may discern the effects yet not the energy-as-itself. That may be the prime mover as it were.

 In human history there is a story of Sargon being found as an infant floating in a reed basket and taken to the Akkadian court where he was raised and  became the greatest warrior and king of the bronze age debatably.  He unified the Summerian-Akkadian civilization under the rule of the Akkadians for a change. Moses arrived in a similar way and nearly ruled Egypt as a prince before leading the Israelis from captivity in a similar fashion. The boy in a basket story may be something like the stork method of accounting for arrival for superior warrior-political leaders in ancient history- a simple yet effective lead-in to the salient facts. The apparent characteristics of mass, gravity and space-time observed from within may eventually have simple explanations when another Einstein rolls down the river of time.