Inclined plane -a view from above; and what Higgs has to do with it?

Abstract The inclined plane has been found an excitingly physical device in search for the truth. It seems unbelievable that something interesting can be still said about the Newtonian gravity and movement of the bodies pushed up on a ramp. However, we show that it does not have to be the case, when you are looking from the right perspective from the above, in particular. In the present paper we would like to describe the very basic idea of the physics as an experimental science. We build two 'theories' predicting two different results of the experiment. Students can perform simple 'scattering' experiment to find which is right and then, may be, where exactly the second is wrong. If one goes deeper into the analogies even more astonishing statements can be developed. If we analyze the 2D projection on a table plane of the ramp and the body on it, and we try to move the body applying the horizontal force, we can see that the mass of the body is modified by the mysterious (in 2D) interaction: the gravity caused by the presence of our 3D planet Earth. Then, if we go too far, we see an analogy with the mysterious Higgs mechanism acting on the table