I don’t actually know what the higgs field is.
I wouldn’t be comfortable getting into the details of the actual “Higgs field” is, nor the Higgs boson, as I am not confident in my understanding, but, for the sake of the meme, the following excerpt from Wikipedia should suffice:
via the Higgs mechanism, [the Higgs boson] gives a rest mass to all massive elementary particles of the Standard Model, including the Higgs boson itself. [source]
I assumed it was gravity.
Gravity can be understood as the attractive force that two massive objects impart on eachother [1.1] — the strength of the gravitational force imparted by one object onto another is proportional to the mass of the former object [1.2]. Do note that this is a simplification. Gravity, as far as it is currently understood, is quite a bit more complicated than this (I am primarily referring to General Relativity) [1].
References
- “Gravity”. Wikipedia. Accessed: 2024-08-13T03:35Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity.
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gravity is a fundamental interaction primarily observed as mutual attraction between all things that have mass.
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$$F = \frac{Gm_1m_2}{r^2}$$ where $F$ is the force, $m_1$ and $m_2$ are the masses of the objects interacting, $r$ is the distance between the centers of the masses and $G$ is the gravitational constant
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To make it as simple as possible, Higgs makes it hard to push something. Gravity makes it hard to lift something.
So there are actually two types of mass. One is called inertial mass (what we feel due to the Higgs mechanism) and the other is called gravitational mass (what we feel due to gravitational attraction between two masses). They are usually the same so the distinction is usually ignored.