The Higgs Field

The Higgs boson, or Higgs particle is just a ripple in the Higgs field. The field is like an electric field — there is no stuff moving around. It’s just there. The particle has no significance besides being a signal that the field is present. In our quantum state, the field is only barely on. If it’s off, protons and neutrons fly apart. If it’s on, molecules have so much mass that they become black holes.

I can see design like a Higgs field, at it’s best when barely on. And unnoticed unless you look for its particles, unobtrusively reminding us how it’s keeping stuff together.

The difference?

We get to choose how much of our Higgs field to turn on.