Natura Simplex : Frontier Physics II

The discovery of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson confirmed an essential mechanism of the Standard Model for explaining the mass of certain elementary particles. However, it does not fully resolve the question of the origin of mass, particularly that of composite structures such as protons and neutrons. We examine the limits of this explanation and present an alternative interpretation. In our approach, proper mass emerges from the geometric confinement of phase. The dynamics of phase make it possible, in particular, to recover the energy-momentum relation of special relativity and to establish a correspondence between the electron at rest and an associated free state of equal energy. This perspective thus proposes to understand mass not as a property conferred by a field, but as a geometric manifestation of the organization of phase.