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 Physicist Sean Carroll proves himself to be equal to the challenge of explaining the Higgs boson in The Particle at the End of the Universe
THE Higgs boson might be the most misrepresented particle in the
universe. Contrary to popular conception, for instance, it's not the
source of all our mass. If the Higgs suddenly ceased to exist, you
wouldn't lose much weight.
Not that you'd want to do without it altogether. As Sean Carroll, a
theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, points
out in this excellent book, the Higgs does make a significant
contribution to the mass of the electron, and a lighter electron would
undo all the chemical bonds in your body, causing you to explode.
Read more here:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/11/exploding-the-myths-about-the-higgs.html?cmpid=RSS|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL|online-news
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