What is the Higgs field and how does it give mass to leptons, quarks, and massive gauge bosons?
In the discrete spacetime of the inflaton spacetime model, fermionic spacetime points are allowed to move between time ticks. The point velocity has two eigenvalues. From one time tick to the next, the average position of a point (neglecting the ever-present random quantum fluctuations) can either remain stationary (velocity = 0) or move one space increment (velocity = c, the velocity of light). The Higgs field is the velocity field. It has a value equal to the Planck energy for a stationary point and a value of zero for a moving point. The vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field, 246 GeV, is a measure of the average ratio of moving points to stationary points, which turns out to be about 1017. This ratio limits the precision with which a stationary point can be located. If all points were stationary, the precision would be high; the electron would have the Planck mass, and nothing could move. If all points moved at the velocity of light, the only possible particles would be massle
