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Higgs Boson
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Nov 10, 2025
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170. Finding the God Particle | People I (Mostly) Admire
Freakonomics Radio Network·Nov 10, 2025
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Fundamental particles acquire mass through their interactions with the Higgs field.
“at the most fundamental level yes the particles the building blocks like quarks electrons have mess and that comes from their interaction with the higgs field”
StarTalk · Jul 2022 · 3 episodes · 7.1M views on this topic
The Higgs field provides mass to particles by acting as a medium that exerts a drag force on them as they travel through space.
“it's field that fills space and as particles that otherwise would be massless as they try to go through space they have to burrow through the hi field and that creates a kind of drag force on them which is what imparts the mass that they have”
StarTalk · Jul 2024 · 1 episode · 4.9M views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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