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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 99: Andere Gebiete der Theorie

T 99.6: Talk

Thursday, March 27, 2014, 18:00–18:15, P1

The origin of mass - without Higgs — •Albrecht Giese — Taxusweg 15, 22605 Hamburg

The detection of the "Higgs" boson has caused great excitement among physicists. However, it is widely overlooked that the corresponding theory is in no way able to explain inertial mass.

On the one hand, the theory does not provide a means of determining the mass of an individual particle. The necessary Yukawa coupling does not result from the theory. On the other hand, cosmological investigations show that the necessary Higgs field does not in fact exist. The discrepancy between Higgs theory and any actual existing vacuum field is of the order of at least 10^57.

The inertial mass follows very simply from the fact that any extended object necessarily displays inertial behaviour. This is a consequence of the finiteness of the speed of light, by which binding forces propagate. If this mechanism is applied to existing particles, it yields the mass of the electron, for example, with a precision of better than 10^-5 if the size of the particle is used. This model also predicts the relativistic increase of a mass in motion and, as a consequence, the famous relationship E=mc^2. In addition, it is able to explain the magnetic moment and the spin of a particle without the use of QM.

For further info: www.ag-physics.org/rmass