The Higgs boson imparts mass to massive particles like electrons and protons. Or so the theory goes. Dennis Overbye in the New York Times provides a good analogy: the Higgs boson, and the Higgs field ...

So a photon is a particle and a wave that arises from an excited electromagnetic field and the Higgs boson is the particle or "quantized manifestation" that arises from the Higgs field when excited.

You can think of the Higgs Field as an ocean and the particles as fish. For instance, a Herring is a fish that functions very well in water. It can turn and swim pretty fast.

In the Higgs field, the Higgs boson acts as a wave and helps give mass to other fundamental particles through its interaction in terms of its vibration (oscillation). His theory was proved 50 ...

The LHC was built partially with the hopes of finding the elusive Higgs ... wave-like characteristics, acquired mass and interacted with other particles around them. He theorized of a field ...

The waves kicked up by the motion of this field, by way of a principle known as wave-particle duality, become particles called Higgs bosons. Their solution boiled down to this: Radioactive decay ...

In superfluids the order parameter, which describes spontaneous symmetry breaking, is an analogue of the Higgs field in the Standard ... three Nambu-Goldstone spin-wave modes acquires small ...

David Werdegar asks whether the Higgs field is like the luminiferous ether (Letters, 30 July). The answer is no. According to quantum field theory, fields, like the Higgs field and the ...

The reason comes back to something called the Higgs field. This field was actually theorized before the Higgs boson itself, as physicists calculated that in order for their theories and ...