New Non Higgs Theory for Mass

[DarkStar7]

I considered this idea myself a few years ago, when considering the Equivalence Principle of gravity and acceleration.

Please read carefully and let me know what you guys think.

Higgs Boson

[Dave Dubya]

I read the name "Jacky JEROME" on it and alarm bells were ringing - I think this was debunked a couple of years back. A whole bunch of his websites started popping up as references in Wiki pages, and then Google searches - but with nothing to back them up. They only refer back to themselves or another of his websites.

There's also next to no information about who he is, other than a page explaining how he held copyrights and patents on the subject and that he'd sent his proposal to scientists the world over...but with no response (I think he was sending them to organisations that didn't actually exist) He also said he'd published a book, but the links only led you to another pdf file stored on Google Books.

Obviously I wouldn't dismiss it totally out of hand, but remain very sceptical. While there's clearly no reason why anyone can't propose a new hypothesis, surely if this was legit he'd be working within the system to get it noticed. A peer-reviewed paper on the subject would be good to see.

[DarkStar7]

Cheers Dave, would be interested in a link to see the rational explanation against it.

[acey]

In the media it's often said that the Higgs boson "explains mass", but it doesn't. It explains why certain particles (called W and Z) are massive rather than massless. It doesn't explain what mass is, or why electrons, quarks etc have mass.

It has been known since the time of Newton that there are two kinds of mass: inertial and gravitational. Inertial mass is related to how hard it is to move something from a standing start, gravitational mass is related to how much gravitational interaction a body has. Newton did some experiments with pendulums and concluded the two definitions of mass to be equivalent; Einstein made this a basic principle of general relativity: the equivalence principle.

This has nothing to do with the Higgs boson.

The site you link to is a bit of crank science which alleges that gravity is really caused by the ""pressure" of spacetime acting on "volume" rather than "mass". Spacetime can indeed have pressure (it caused inflation), but that's not what this guy is on about. Instead he just draws some lines round circles and calls that pressure.

This still has nothing to do with the Higgs boson.

Finally, though, the guy essentially asserts the media claim, "Higgs explains mass", and then says why instead it should be his "volume" theory that explains mass.

It's worth adding that serious physicists do indeed speculate that the masses of quarks and leptons might be explained by the "Higgs mechanism", i.e. some kind of symmetry breaking. But that would be within a unified theory that doesn't yet exist.

For the time being, there is no explanation of mass. It was long ago speculated that an object's inertia is caused by the rest of the universe ("Mach's principle") but that remains an open question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_and_Z_bosons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach's_principle