Eduardo Munoz from Facebook says Eduardo, he's selling. Can you explain to us a mortal language how the Boson gives mass to matter? So how does Higgs work at the Higgs Boson? How does it give mass? Yeah. Think of it as inertia. That could be yet another frontier of discovery in the universe. What is that intermediary thing? In fact, if you were that civilization, you'd be badass. Oh my gosh. You control not only all the universe that we know about, but the rest of the universe that's influenced by dark matter. If you could make dark matter planets out of it, if you could make it stick to
Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer fan-submitted Cosmic Queries on black holes, dark matter, the Higgs boson, extraterrestrial life in our solar system, higher dimensions, and much more!
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