The Higgs Boson Explains Less Than You Think

#HiggsBoson #ParticlePhysics #Physics In July of two thousand twelve, scientists at CERN announced they had found the particle that gives the universe its mass. Reporters called it the God particle. But look at your own body, and the surprise begins immediately. The Higgs field only accounts for about one percent of your weight. The rest comes from a storm of energy trapped inside your protons, a storm the Higgs never touches. Today we follow that gap all the way down, through the mystery of why the Higgs cannot explain its own mass, why it says nothing about gravity or dark matter, and why a hidden flaw in the vacuum itself might one day rewrite the universe. If stories like this pull you in, follow along and join us. Turn up the volume. We start where the story usually ends, with the particle that solved far less than anyone promised. Sources: a. CERN, confirmation of the Higgs boson discovery — https://home.cern/news/press-release/... b. The Nobel Prize, 2013 Physics Prize press release (Higgs mechanism) — https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/phy... c. Jefferson Lab, on the origin of proton and neutron mass — https://www.jlab.org/news/stories/tow... d. The Nobel Prize, 2015 Physics Prize press release (neutrino mass) — https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/phy... e. The Nobel Prize, 2011 Physics Prize press release (accelerating universe / dark energy) — https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/phy... #Science #Cosmology #Universe #Astrophysics #Quantum #CERN #Space #Nobel