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May 25, 2017 at 19:31 comment added JDługosz So… rather tha “dislocates or exchange it”, make that “change the 'charge' as felt by the Higgs field”. But, as previously noted, that will not remove the bulk of your mass.
May 25, 2017 at 19:29 comment added JDługosz In any case, most of your mass does not come from the Higgs mechanism, as explained on the physics stack exchange.
May 25, 2017 at 19:27 comment added JDługosz The boson is an excited state of the field. The mass is not caused by particles but by interaction with the field. Making it cough up a boson was a trick to show us that the field existed and worked as expected; not something that is present in normal matter.
May 25, 2017 at 18:11 history answered Justin Ohms CC BY-SA 3.0