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Chadmartigan t1_iu0zog9 wrote

Reply to comment by Alarmed_Economics_90 in If the Higgs Field can release energy, can it be harnessed? by [deleted]

Close but I think you've got it backwards. It's the field that imparts the property of mass to certain particles, specifically: quarks, leptons, and W and Z bosons. The other gauge bosons (photons and gluons) do not interact with Higgs, and are therefore massless.

However, I do not understand how one would release or extract energy from Higgs.

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MarshyBarsh t1_iu10e9e wrote

~3:14 explains how the higgs field can release potential energy, causing false vacuum decay.

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Chadmartigan t1_iu11h08 wrote

I know about vacuum decay but I'm not sure how you're supposed to harness vacuum decay energy when the whole universe is deleted.

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Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_iu12co5 wrote

So it appears that if the higgs field collapses it releases energy. Unfortunately according to that video it also deletes the universe so I'm not sure if we're going to be able to harness that anytime soon but we could work toward it... maybe have tiny little universe deletions that we could create and harness.. I don't know!

Turns out it's a good question!!

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