Over the past few decades, scientists have been using a standard model that explains how our universe works but this model fails to explain how particles get their mass. A major part of the model is a hypothetical quantum field that is supposedly responsible for giving particles their masses. The Higgs boson would explain why particles have masses. The Higgs boson is said to give all matter its mass.
The Higgs boson has not been proven but its existence cannot be ignored at the same time. While it is impossible to physically observe a Higgs boson the fact that the fundamental particles do have mass is regarded by many physicists as an indication of the existence of the Higgs boson. If we do assume its existence we can predict the effect it would have on other particles. While it may not be truly proven yet one of the main aims for the upcoming decades is to prove the existence or nonexistence of the Higgs boson
The Higgs boson is part of a theory first proposed by Higgs and others in the 1960s to explain how particles obtain mass. The theory proposes that Higgs exist everywhere and interact with everything which causes surrounding particles to get clustered. Take for example a famous celebrity and a common person, the common man is more likely to go unnoticed in public but the famous person is bound to cluster groups of people. The groups of people can be represented as the Higgs boson. Certain particles attract more Higgs than others, more the Higgs particle clusters the greater its mass. While proving the Higgs boson theory won’t explain everything about the universe it will help solve the problem with the standard model. Researchers say the existence of the Higgs boson could be the biggest breakthrough in science since the past 50 years.
Writer: Atif Agboatwala
26/07/2020
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