Look out Einstein, here come Weinstein

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Re: Look out Einstein, here comes Weinstein

and an explanation of why particles have mass that doesn't seem like an arbitrary add-on like the Higgs field does.

Only problem is, Higgs field is there, they already highly likely found the Higgs boson (and even if they didn't, they did FIND something, that - whatever you may call it - gives the particles their mass). So it's not an arbitrary add-on.

From Wikipedia:

Some consider [ the Standard Model ] to be ad-hoc and inelegant, requiring 19 numerical constants whose values are unrelated and arbitrary. Although the Standard Model, as it now stands, can explain why neutrinos have masses, the specifics of neutrino mass are still unclear. It is believed that explaining neutrino mass will require an additional 7 or 8 constants, which are also arbitrary parameters.

Maybe that is just the way that our reality works.

 

[Gary7]

I believe that we won't ever have the answer until we are able to travel about the galaxy. We're stuck in just one tiny part of the galaxy with limited information at our disposal. We can look about the cosmos all we want from our little vantage point, but it's restrictive. We need to get out and explore, which won't effectively happen until we're able to travel great distances in reasonable amounts of time relative to human lifespans.