Antiparticles

[Maine farmer]

If it's true that gravity is caused by the Higgs boson, and they recently did find evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson at CERN, would there then exist ant-Higgs bosons?

[Vmedvil]

I do not believe so, There is no Anti-Gravity force that is known in physics if negative matter exists then yes, there would be a major possibility of a Anti-higgs boson but with the absence of Negative matter, No I would say the possibility of a Anti-Higgs to be small. Now there could be different versions of the higgs but I think a Anti-higgs to be a little far fetched.  I am still waiting for them to find my Graviton to prove my modification of the Schwarzchild metric, which would be a higgs like particle. 

 

Edited September 29, 2017 by Vmedvil

[Maine farmer]

Thank you.  It's always nice to read a post and come away knowing more than I did before!

[exchemist]

Seconded! A nice simple table. I had not fact every realised that all the building blocks of matter are fermions and it is just the force-carriers which are bosons. 

 

What puzzled me initially is that a proton, which is 2 up quarks plus a down quark, would only have a mass about 24 times greater than an electron, according to this table, whereas in fact the proton mass is about 1836 times that of the electron.

 

But then I realised these are rest masses. So I looked it up and, sure enough, most of the mass of the proton comes from the kinetic and potential energy the quarks have, when bound together by the Strong Force (analogous to the energy the electron has when confined in an atomic orbital by the electromagnetic force).