Higgs Boson

[Sorcerer]

How can the Higgs Boson/field simultaneously have mass and embue other particles with mass? Does the Higgs interact with itself?

[ajb]

Yes, the Higgs self-interacts. You see this as the scalar field has a potential. Look at the quartic term in the Higgs potential.

[Sorcerer]

I'll need to dust up on my math before I go that deep, just trying to understand things from a semantically descriptive perspective for now.

It's good to know I can use my inductive logic, sometimes, to get a good hypothesis. It's nice to know it's the correct one too.

[timo]

No offense meant, and the comment is more a general one than about this particular question: But I think one should not get over-excited about occasionally guessing the answer to a yes/no question correctly.

 

EDIT: @Sorcerer's post below (don't want to derail the thread with a separate response): I somehow had the urge to make the statement above, since I too often wonder about people wanting themselves or some phenomena to be taken seriously for having the accuracy of a random number generator. You are indeed correct that it does not exactly match to the statement you were trying to make.

Edited August 4, 2015 by timo

[Sorcerer]

No offense meant, and the comment is more a general one than about this particular question: But I think one should not get over-excited about occasionally guessing the answer to a yes/no question correctly.

The answer wasn't the big deal, it was being able to induct the correct question to ask.