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And what's the deal with the higgs field not being 'a force'.
It's a different kind of object compared than typical "forces". The electromagnetic / photon field is a vector field – at each point in space (and time), it has a magnitude and a direction, like an arrow.
The strong and weak force fields are each just multiple vector fields in a trench coat.
The Higgs field isn't a vector field, but a scalar field. It has only magnitude, but not direction. In fluid dynamics, e.g. pressure is a scalar field – there are regions of high pressure or low pressure, but a "direction of pressure" makes no sense.
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