> But why or how do these particles attract each other?

http://www.lhc-closer.es/php/index.php?i=3D1&s=3D6&p=3D5&e=3D0

http://physicsforme.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/higgs-boson-one-page-explanati=
on/

If I could find "Higgs Mechanism For Dummies" I'd post it

I can't pretend to understand most of the maths behind it, but the
analogy most often given is that the Higgs field looks like a viscous
fluid to a particle and, generally, the bigger the particle the more
the drag (ie less speed). The search for the Higgs boson came
about because every field has a particle associated with it (the
electromagnetic field has the photon and so on). To make the
Higgs field theory work, they had to find the Higgs particle that
is responsible for the field. However, I've not yet found a simple
explanation of how particles react with the Higgs field, just that
they do

There's a lot of quantum thermodynamics to wade through, which
I really would like to get a handle on, and finding the Higgs boson
answers only a very few questions. For example it gets you thinking
about how exactly you distinguish between energy and matter. How
does a massless particle have energy ? If the Higgs boson is purely
mass, then how does it convey information or properties to other
particles ? And if it is such an enormous particle, why has it been
so difficult to find ?

There seems to be a connection with superconductivity and ferro-
magnetism too. Maybe reading up on those will help, especially
now that the Higgs boson has more or less been confirmed

Joe=20

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