Does the analogy from Sean Carrol (Post #14) I mentioned make any sense to you? He seems to be saying the higgs field has negative energy in the vacuum state which is why you have to put in 125Gev to create a higgs boson. All the other fields have zero energy in the vacuum state so you just put in a little energy (100’s of keV) and “poof” you have a photon, electron, whatever. And if the higgs field has negative energy in the vacuum state, isn’t THAT dark matter/energy?