The Higgs Boson: The Particle That Gives Mass

The Higgs boson is nicknamed the “God particle” because of its vital role in mass.
It was predicted in the 1960s to explain why some particles have mass while others don’t.
The Higgs works through the Higgs field, an invisible energy field filling the universe.
Particles gain mass by interacting with this field—the stronger the interaction, the heavier they are.
Without the Higgs mechanism, atoms, stars, and even us could not exist.
The Higgs boson was finally discovered in 2012 at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
It was a triumph for the Standard Model, confirming the last missing piece of the theory.
The Higgs is extremely unstable, decaying into other particles in less than a trillionth of a second.
Its discovery required one of the largest scientific experiments in history, involving thousands of scientists.
The Higgs boson continues to raise questions about dark matter, new physics, and the nature of the universe.