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With the Higgs field now confirmed, could one theoretically build the Higgs equivalent of a Faraday cage?  A structure that would nullify the Higgs field inside of it? 

My understanding is, within quantum mechanics, in a pure vacuum, all known fields have a lowest energy state of zero.  The Higgs field is the only exception -- it's lowest energy state is not zero.  Hence, the uniform field permeating all of space, through which other particles couple with and thus are endowed mass.

My question is whether this "non-zero lowest energy state" attribute of the field is an inherent lower bound;  or if it just happens to describe the status quo of the Higgs field today.

i.e. could one theoretically do something to cancel out the Higgs field?  If so, what would happen to mass that was passed into this "Faraday cage" of sorts?  Would it immediately explode into radiated energy?
gpt
Just to point out, nobody has confirmed the Higgs field or the presence of the Higgs boson -- just that there is a previously undiscovered boson with a mass which is within the theoretical range of masses the Higgs was predicted to have. Obviously, we think it's the Higgs, but that's not proven.