Can an imaginary vacuum create an actual boson??
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Originally Posted by AntonioLao  Quantum field theories assert that the absolute vacuum is massless. However, the false vacuum is massive as it is dominated by the scalar Higgs field. And the masses of all other elementary particles were manifested by spontaneous symmetry breaking of this relatively false vacuum through a Higgs mechanism (a way of creating mass out of the vacuum). This correctness of this concept is pending its verification by the discovery of the Higgs boson. |