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- Title
COSMOLOGY, EINSTEIN'S "MACH PRINCIPLE" AND THE HIGGS FIELDS.
- Authors
NE'EMAN, YUVAL
- Abstract
According to Einstein's "Mach Principle" idea, inertia and mass are the result of a dynamical effect — namely a containment–confinement due to a universal energy to energy interaction, dominated by the contribution of the most distant sources in the universe, e.g. if the force weakens with distance like 1/rn, n < 2. In the present treatment of high energy (particle) physics, quarks and leptons acquire their mass by interacting with "Higgs" fields related to symmetry breakdowns. Assuming that these mass-endowing fields in fact collect and channel the cosmical contributions we find that their basic action is repulsive, so that the universal expansion is the recoil of the mass-making.
- Subjects
METAPHYSICAL cosmology; EINSTEIN, Albert, 1879-1955; MACH'S principle; HIGGS bosons; MASS (Physics); INERTIA (Mechanics)
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics A: Particles & Fields; Gravitation; Cosmology; Nuclear Physics, 2006, Vol 21, Issue 13/14, p2773
- ISSN
0217-751X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0217751X06032575