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Was the Higgs boson discovery a triumph or disappointment?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Higgs Field Is There All the Time

The Higgs field is there all of the time and every particle in your body is interacting with it. It's that interaction that gives the particle mass that makes it move as if it had mass. And you can also technically say that there are Higgs bosons doing it, but they're virtual Higgs boson. The way we can replace the concept of a field is like an infinite sum over virtual particles. In that same sense, the field exists throughout the whole universe. Whenever a particle moves through the universe, it is interacting with that field. But I guess also at the same time, the Higgs Boson is working all the time. Like right now as I move my

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