What I can understand: A Higgs boson is a single particle of much larger “field” called the Higgs field. When stuff travels through spacetime, it is forced to interact with the Higgs field and out of that we get what we know as “mass.”
Here’s where I get hung up: This implies that things have mass because they interact with the Higgs field. Not that things inherently just have mass. Considering that photons are moving through the same spacetime dimensions as all the other stuff in the universe, how is it that photons are able to avoid interacting with the Higgs field and thus end up being massless?
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