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@theprof

I am sorry, but you are profoundly confused. I believe you are confusing chemical reactions that break chemical bonds to generate energy with Matter Energy conversion. They have nothing to do with one another. When you are burning gasoline, or oxidizing the hydrocarbon. Matter is not being turned into energy. Matter is just releasing energy that has been stored. The gallon of gasoline that went into the engine comes out the other end in byproducts such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and water vapor. The mass is still the same.

When your talking about matter energy conversion. Your typically talking about nuclear decay, virtual particles in Quantum Mechanics, or Matter Antimatter annihilation. There isn't any chemical change involved at all. Except that any matter created would naturally have properties. Anyway the Higgs field has nothing to do with all of that. It is just something that gives particles mass, and there isn't any evidence it could be manipulated to increase, or decrease mass, and even if it could. You still wouldn't be getting a free lunch. There is nothing here that violates the laws regarding the conservation of energy.