A No-Nonsense Explanation of How the Higgs Boson Gives Particles Their Masses

A Simplified Explanation of the Higgs Mechanism

Marco Tavora Ph.D.
Towards Data Science
8 min readAug 20, 2020

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Image by Garik Barseghyan from Pixabay.

Particle physicists have developed, mostly in the second part of the 20th century, an elegant theoretical model that constitutes a framework for our understanding of the fundamental particles and forces in our universe. This robust framework is the…

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