• Question: whats the higs bozon

    Asked by anon-293481 on 5 May 2021.
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      Neil Guthrie answered on 27 Apr 2021:

      As far as I know, and I am NOT a physicist, so the other scientists might be better placed to answer: but the Higgs Boson is a very, very, very small particle which gives mass to bigger, but still very very very small particles, like electrons..!

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      Rosie Goodburn answered on 27 Apr 2021: last edited 27 Apr 2021 10:10 am

      Hi! This is a great question! So great, that I don’t think I could type out a good answer here 😉 Instead, I’m gonna link you to this video that does a pretty good job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joTKd5j3mzk

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    Rosie commented on :

    It’s not quite true what Neil has said – it is in fact the Higgs *field* that gives particles their mass! If you imagine that the Higgs field is like a pond that everything floats in, the Higgs boson is a ripple in that pond. So it is the pond (Higgs field) that gives things mass, not the pond ripples (Higgs boson)!