What is the point of confirming the existence of the Higgs boson

The Higgs boson is a type of boson with zero spin predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.

It is the last undiscovered particle in the Standard Model. It can help to explain why other particles have mass.

As early as the 1960s, the British scientist Peter Higgs theoretically proposed the possibility of the existence of the "Higgs boson". However, the actual confirmation of the existence of this particle in experiments will not be until 2013.

In 2010, Italian physicist Tommaso Dorigo claimed that the Tevatron accelerator of Fermila in the United States may have discovered the Higgs boson. But the discovery at that time was limited to 3 standard deviations, so it was not recognized in the scientific community.

It wasn't until 2013 that CERN confirmed the discovery of the Higgs boson with a reliability of 5 standard deviations. That's why these physicists dare to announce to the world that we have finally confirmed the existence of the "God particle".

Why is there such a big difference between 2x standard deviation and 5x standard deviation? The reason for this is that scientists may try thousands of experiments in search of a particular discovery. In the case of the Higgs boson, the particle is theoretically produced only once every 10 billion collisions.

Therefore, in order to confirm the existence of the Higgs boson, physicists designed particle colliders that need to repeat the collision on the quadrillion scale.

In any experiment, there is an element of luck and therefore can also lead to false findings. The more you repeat the experiment, the more likely you are to encounter an artifact. That's why physicists need to raise the test bar to 5 standard deviations to make sure the results are statistically acceptable.

5 times the standard deviation" rule, there is a very strong logic behind it. But this rule is not used by the financial research industry. At present, most of the quantitative research in finance still uses "2 standard deviation" as the standard for accepting experimental results.

As a result, many financial studies have come to conclusions that do not necessarily stand up to scrutiny.

According to Higgs's theory, the Higgs boson is the basis for the formation of mass in other particles. They swim in the "ocean" of Higgs bosons, and they are affected by their inertia and finally have mass. After that, all the particles interact with each other in the framework of three other forces in addition to gravity, and they are unified under the "Standard Model" to form a thousand worlds.

Since the Higgs boson is the last undiscovered elementary particle, it is of great significance for perfecting the theoretical "edifice" of particle physics. Once it is falsified, the "Standard Model" theory "the edifice will fall".

On July 4, 2012, scientists at CERN said that they had discovered a new type of subatomic particle in the process of searching for the Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle", which conforms to the properties of the Higgs boson.

CERN spokesman Incandela said physicists had discovered a new boson that matched the properties of the Higgs boson. A boson is a "subatomic particle", that is, a particle smaller than an atom.

The Higgs boson" theory was proposed by Higgs, a physicist at the University of Edinburgh in 1964, Higgs believed that in the big ** 13.7 billion years ago, the Higgs boson made matter gain mass (gravitational force turns mass into weight), so that stars and planets can be born, and eventually give birth to life. This theory explains why particles have mass and thus evolve into everything. Humanity may be a big step away from understanding the mystery of the birth of the universe.

Roughly speaking, it means; He can restore everything; Entity.

It feels awesome, but I still don't know what the point is.

It is the last piece of the puzzle of the Standard Model of Physics, the 62nd particle.