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What Does Every Particle in the Universe Have
at 36:11
Answer
Every particle has a field component and a particle component. The field component is what interests scientists the most because it permeates all of space, and it looks like dark energy. It’s something our atoms interact with and why we feel inertia— it’s us interacting with the Higgs field.
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