Space And Times Rests on the Mysterious Higgs Boson, Scientists Look For The 'One Big’ Particle

Since the discovery of the mysterious Higgs Boson in 2012, a discovery that went on to win the 2013 Nobel Prize, scientists have been trying to decode it to study the secrets of space and time.

A team of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the massive particle collider in Geneva on the border between France and Switzerland, is trying to determine if a heavier Higgs Boson really exists. The researchers are once again trying to understand the Standard Model of particle physics, which has for decades become established as a well-tested physics theory. Scientists say the Standard Model includes the electromagnetic, strong and weak forces and all their carrier particles and explains well how these factors act on all of the matter particles.

According to the Standard Model, the particles are actually fields that permeate and soak up all of of space and time. The study highlights one field for each kind of particle. “There’s a field for electrons, a field for photons, etc. What you think of as particles interact (by bouncing off each other), it's really the vibrations in the fields that are doing a very complicated dance.” It says the Higgs Boson permeates all of space and time, and it also gets to play with other fields too.

“By talking to other bosons, the Higgs is able to give them mass and make sure that they stay separated from the photons, the carriers of electromagnetic force. Without the Higgs boson running interference, all these carriers would be merged together and those two forces would merge together,” said the study.

In 2012, Higgs Boson was discovered when protons were smashed into one another at near light-speed. Back then physicists didn’t have a firm prediction for the mass of the Higgs Boson. There was "kind-of-sort-of half-predictions" about its mass based on the way it interacts with another particle.

Physicists believe there could be a whole plethora of Higgs Bosons that are just too heavy for us to see with the current generation of particle colliders. Moreover, there are speculative theories that push the knowledge of physics beyond the Standard Model. “The exact nature of these additional Higgs characters depends on the theory, ranging anywhere from simply one or two extra-heavy Higgs fields to even composite structures made of multiple different kinds of Higgs Bosons stuck together,” said the study.

Theorists are still trying to figure out the mystery surrounding the Higgs Boson.