The Higgs Field, a very speculative phenomenon, comprises the boson. But more than that, the HF exists in higher dimensions (higher than our standard four). These bosons exist not only in our space-time, but also in the other dimensions. In those other dimensions, the bosons have direction (like any force field, but this one's in another universe in part).
Thus, the speculation goes, if a fundamental particle is aligned with the direction of the HF (aligned with those bosons) in one or more of those higher dimensions, it will have no mass characteristics (like a photon). If a particle is counter aligned with the HF, it will possess inertial characteristics like mass has in our universe.
All fundamental particles are manifestations of strings. The graviton, another speculation, is a string vibrating at a specific frequency, which is what gives it its characteristics in our universe. And, as gravity is a force and has no inertial characteristics, that string is clearly aligned with the HF and the included Higgs Bosons. [See source.]
So, to answer your question, each particle is just a vibrating infinitely thin string of Plank length (~10^-33 cm). And whether it has mass-like characteristics depends on how it is oriented with the higher-dimensional Higgs Field. But, and this is a BIG BUT, all this is pure speculation (aka, WAG) based on incomplete mathematics (so-called perturbation math).
2007-06-10 15:15:23
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answered by oldprof 7
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