Speedlight Memes

The perfect subatomic relationship drama! At the quantum party, elementary particles are the carefree ravers—zipping around at light speed, vibing through spacetime without a care in the world. Meanwhile, the Higgs field is basically that one friend who's always like "guys, please slow down, you're being ridiculous." What's actually happening is that particles interacting with the Higgs field gain mass (literally the physics equivalent of being weighed down by responsibility). Without this interaction, particles would zoom around at light speed forever like eternal teenagers. The stronger a particle interacts with the Higgs field, the more mass it gains—and the more the field is like "NOPE, you're staying right here, young quark!"