06-12-2011, 06:50 AM
Yes and no 
The Higgs boson (God particle) is part of the electroweak unification theory, which basically says that electromagnetic and nuclear weak forces are the same thing. The problem there is that the photon, which is the exchange particle in electromagnetic force, has no mass -- but the W and Z exchange particles in nuclear weak, the force between electrons and neutrinos, have a proven, measurable mass. These forces seem different to us now, because we're in a low-temperature universe, but it should be possible to simulate that equilibrium point when the forces were symmetrical and there is just one kind of exchange particle, the Higgs boson, which slows particles and concentrates kinetic energy into mass.
By the way, they haven't found it yet, they only thought they had.
The Higgs boson (God particle) is part of the electroweak unification theory, which basically says that electromagnetic and nuclear weak forces are the same thing. The problem there is that the photon, which is the exchange particle in electromagnetic force, has no mass -- but the W and Z exchange particles in nuclear weak, the force between electrons and neutrinos, have a proven, measurable mass. These forces seem different to us now, because we're in a low-temperature universe, but it should be possible to simulate that equilibrium point when the forces were symmetrical and there is just one kind of exchange particle, the Higgs boson, which slows particles and concentrates kinetic energy into mass.
By the way, they haven't found it yet, they only thought they had.
It could be worse