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Observation - the act of defining any superposition.

Short version of the Higgs boson and Higgs field

The Higgs boson is the theoretical particle that gives rise to the mass of fundamental particles. It does this as a field that spans across the whole of the universe and you can think of it as someone trying to walk from one side of the room but they are up to their knees in water. The more drag the particle has in the field hence the slower it moves, the more mass it has. One thing to bear in mind is that this does not explain the mass created through quark confinement which is where most of our mass comes from.

The Higgs boson is predicted to have a mass of about 125GeV and would have a spin of 0 which is what makes it a boson.

Now, we know that mass and energy are interchangeable terms, photons have 0 mass and so one would expect then to have 0 energy, but E=had allows a photon to have energy but only when it is travelling at the speed of light.

Now this has been very brief and simple and not incredibly accurate, I hope this helps some of you understand the Higgs Boson.