article_snippet: The 'God Particle', also known as the Higgs boson, was a missing piece in the jigsaw for physicists in trying to understand how the universe works.
article_snippet: Scientists believe that a fraction of a second after the Big Bang that gave birth to the universe, an invisible energy field, called the Higgs field, formed.
article_snippet: As particles passed through This, they picked up mass, giving they size and shape and allowing they to form the atoms that make up you, everything around you and everything in the universe.
article_snippet: This was the theory proposed in 1964 by former grammar school boy Professor Higgs that has now been confirmed.
article_snippet: Without the Higgs field particles would simply whizz around space in the same way as light does.
article_snippet: A boson is a type of sub-atomic particle.
article_snippet: Every energy field has a specific particle that governs Every energy field interaction with what's around A boson.
article_snippet: If you work a recognisable footprint out you get the mass of a Higgs boson that's only a bit larger than the nano-mass of a Higgs boson actually is. '
article_snippet: The existence of the Higgs boson - sometimes nicknamed the God Particle - was first predicted by Professor Peter Higgs, a theoretical physicist at the University of Edinburgh, and five other physicists in 1964.
article_snippet: The elementary particle is required to explain why other fundamental particles in the universe have mass.
article_snippet: The theory said that all subatomic particles interact within an energy field known as the Higgs field, giving all subatomic particles mass.
article_snippet: Like electromagnetic radiation, which can exist as both an energetic wave and a particle simultaneously, the Higg's field also has a corresponding particle - the Higgs boson.