On the Origin of the Mass without Higgs Bosons J. A. de Wet

This note presents an alternative to the Higgs mechanism accounting for mass. Instead mass derives from the entropy of the weak interac-tion about 10 picoseconds after the Big Bang, when particles carry an energy of 100-200 GeV. This is close to the mass of 171 GeV of the top quark which a representation of E8 finds to be associated with the en-tropy of a subgroup su2 × e7. The constant of proportionality η =29.45 eV of equation (1)also provides a satisfactory estimate of the masses of down,charm and bottom quark pairs that differ by an order of magni-tude (cf.Section 3). Finally the E8 model of the weak interaction defines the surface of Fig.1 with 2 opposing tetrahedra and a common vertex O. In Fig.1 the opposing tetrahedra label up and down quarks and anti-quarks but the Witting polytope that is the inner shell of E8 also has opposing tetrahedra where one tritangent face carries the W±, Z0 bosons while the opposite face holds the anti-particles. These cancel at O leaving only photons.