It would never have reached infinite mass, no matter how much you increased the speed.
Mass does not change when speed changes.
Mass changing due to an increase of speed would violate the physical laws.
The Higgs field is a field of energy that is thought to exist in every region of the universe. The field is accompanied by a fundamental particle known as the Higgs boson, which is used by the field to continuously interact with other particles, such as the electron. Particles that interact with the field are "given" mass and, in a similar fashion to an object passing through a treacle (or molasses), will become slower as they pass through it. The result of a particle "gaining" mass from the field is the prevention of its ability to travel at the speed of light.
Mass itself is not generated by the Higgs field; the act of creating matter or energy from nothing would violate the laws of conservation. Mass is, however, "given" to particles via the Higgs field's use of Higgs boson particles. Higgs bosons contain the relative mass in the form of energy and once the field has endowed a formally massless particle, the particle in question will slow down as it has now become "heavy". |
The explanation about the Higgs field is mostly accurate, with the exception of the mistaken notion that the Higgs field "gives" mass to particles instead of resisting the motion of particles.
Other names for "the Higgs field" are "
the quantum field" and even "
aether".