Higgs Boson
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CORE DEFINITION
A particle that gives mass to other particles. Without the Higgs field, electrons would fly at the speed of light and atoms could not form.
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Finding invisible resistance. In organizational change, why is it that even when everyone is enthusiastic, things don't move forward? Because there is a 'cultural Higgs field' (old habits, implicit rules). It is invisible, but it gives heavy 'mass' (resistance) to all change initiatives.
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The Higgs boson is the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, direct evidence of the Higgs mechanism; its discovery completed the last piece of the Standard Model, confirming the mass generation mechanism.
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