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Is the Higgs Boson useful?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Higgs Boson Unexplained

The Higgs theory starts with this. Imagine a field that permeates the entire universe and every particle feels this field is affected by this field in different amounts. So you turn the question of why do particles have different masses into a different question? Why do particles feel the Higgs field differently? But there is, one manifestation of the field is the existence of this particle. And so you might ask, since we put out that video, has everybody, now does everybody understand the Higgs boson?"

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