To understand the Higgs mechanism, imagine that a room full of physicists quietly chattering is like space filled only with the Higgs field....
... a well known scientist walks in, creating a disturbance as he moves across the room, and attracting a cluster of admirers with each step ...
... this increases his resistance to movement, in other words, he acquires mass, just like a particle moving through the Higgs field ...
... if a rumour crosses the room ...
... it creates the same kind of clustering, but this time among the scientists themselves. In this analogy, these clusters are the Higgs particles.
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