{"id":227936,"date":"2025-12-28T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-twist-between-hidden-dimensions-may-explain-mass"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:05:51","slug":"a-twist-between-hidden-dimensions-may-explain-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-twist-between-hidden-dimensions-may-explain-mass","title":{"rendered":"A Twist Between Hidden Dimensions May Explain Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-twist-between-hidden-dimensions-may-explain-mass.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-standard-model\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">bosons<\/a> could have arisen from the twisted geometry of hidden dimensions, a new theoretical paper has demonstrated.<\/p>\n<p>The work has outlined a way to bypass the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-the-higgs-field\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Higgs field<\/a> as the source of particle masses, offering a new tool for understanding how the Higgs field itself might have emerged, as well as a possible means of addressing some of the persistent gaps in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-standard-model\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Standard Model<\/a> of particle physics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our picture,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2025\/12\/251215084222.htm\">says theoretical physicist Richard Pin\u010d\u00e1k<\/a> of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, \u201cmatter emerges from the resistance of geometry itself, not from an external field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W bosons could have arisen from the twisted geometry of hidden dimensions, a new theoretical paper has demonstrated. The work has outlined a way to bypass the Higgs field as the source of particle masses, offering a new tool for understanding how the Higgs field [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}