Aw shit man, I'm a physicist, and even I can't fucking understand Higgs bosons. Allow me to quote from the Wikipedia page on the Higgs mechanism: In the standa

Aw shit man, I'm a physicist, and even I can't fucking understand Higgs bosons. Allow me to quote from the Wikipedia page on the Higgs mechanism: In the standard model, the Higgs field is an SU(2) doublet, a complex spinor with four real components (or equivalently with two complex components), with a Standard Model U(1) charge of −1. It transforms as a spinor under SU(2). Under U(1) rotations, it gets multiplied by a phase; this mixes the real and imaginary part of the complex spinor into each other, so this is not the same as two complex spinors mixing under U(1) (which would have eight real components between them), but instead is the spinor representation of the group U(2). After symmetry breaking, three of the four degrees of freedom in the Higgs field mix with the W and Z bosons, while the one remaining degree of freedom becomes the Higgs boson – a new scalar particle. That clear? No, it fucking isn't. And it just gets fucking worse after that. I'd really like to be able to form some kind of picture in my head of how a Higgs Boson gives mass to other particles, but I just can't... and if I could it would probably be wrong.