Standard model Higgs boson explained

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12 pointsbeghbali5 comments

Wanted this so much to make sense to a layman. Has anyone found a resource that doesn't require a Phd?

In a sentence, the Higgs boson is how matter attains mass.

None of the other sub-particles could explain mass until this was proven to exist.

I found these helpful:

Thanks the first two I had seen and my eyes glazed over. The third one helped...

Yeah, this doesn't really help.