- All things are triune with binary inter-actives.
- Physics has built matter on fluctuating foundations. It built matter foundations on fluctuations in the quantum vacuum. This activity goes on inside protons and neutrons. This process provides almost all the mass of ordinary matter.
- Virtual particles make up an unseen layer of reality. Virtual particles are real particles. Quantum mechanics requires these temporary violations of conservation of energy. This results in one particle becoming a pair of heavier virtual particles. Which quickly reverts into the original particle as if they had never been there. The strong nuclear force that binds quarks together created them. The strong nuclear force rides on a field of virtual particles. A field of virtual particles called gluons carries the strong force. They randomly pop into existence and disappear again. Virtual particles have a negative squared mass. That’s what virtual means. Each proton. and each neutron contains three quarks each, or only about 1% of their total mass. The rest of the particle’s weight is energy. Quantum chromo dynamics is the process involved. A lattice QCD grid models space and time for its validation.
- The vacuum also contains pairs of virtual quarks and antiquarks.
- More exotic particles come and go, quark-antiquark pairs can pop up and momentarily transform a proton into a different particle.
- Most of our mass comes from virtual quarks and gluons fizzing away in the quantum vacuum.
- It made bosons up of gluons and quarks. As two pepped-up protons pass through each other, it’s usually pairs of massless gluons that infuse invisible fields with their combined energy and excite other particles into existence, and that includes Higgs bosons.
- The Higgs field is a field of energy that exists in every region of the universe.
- The Higgs field also creates mass out of the quantum vacuum. Virtual Higgs bosons also pop in and out. The Higgs boson is the fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons and quarks. A particle’s mass determines how much it resists changing its speed or position when it encounters a force. Not all fundamental particles have mass.