The Higgs ocean in which modern theory claims we are all immersed interacts with quarks and electrons: it resists their accelerations much as a vat of molasses resists the motion of a Ping-Pong ball that’s been submerged. And this resistance, this drag on particulate constituents, contributes to what you perceive as the mass of your arm and the bowling ball you are swinging, or as the mass of an object you’re throwing, or as the mass of your entire body as you accelerate toward the finish line in a 100-meter race. And so we do feel the Higgs ocean.
