What are Higgs Particles?
You could say gravitons – another theoretical particle never yet found in the laboratory is the giver of ‘weight’. The Higgs boson is the giver of mass. Even if the Higgs does not exist, something having a fairly narrowly defined set of characteristics must fill its place or some combination of them.
Higgs particles, also known as the Higgs Boson, are units that have been theorized in particle physics but, as of yet, have not been proven to exist. They are sometimes referred to as the God Particle because they are thought to be all around us, yet nearly undetectable. These are some of the same traits people associate with God, thus the reason for the name. Higgs particles are thought to exist in a field known as the Higgs field. Both were named after the physicist that first developed the theory, Peter Higgs. In general, Higgs particles could explain what gives matter to mass, and thus composes the universe. In the most basic sense, it could help humans understand where we come from. That quest of self discovery, perhaps more than any other, is what drives physicists to search for Higgs particles. Though Higgs particles are still theoretical, some say the best chance to find them may be a large machine that has come online in the summer of 2008 known as the Large Hadron Collider. T
