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> Electrons are helically moving photons

How do you explain that electrons have a rest mass, but photons don't (otherwise photons couldn't move with the speed of light according to special relativity)?

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Because what we see as a photon is a the one bozon left without a pair of one of the four pre-Higgs bozons that exist prior to the electroweak symmetry breaking. That's how all of them get mass.

An electron gets it directle from the VEV.




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