Does Higgs Boson Tell Us Why All Objects Exist?

      This is the suggestion of the subtitle in a Wall Street Journal article today. In any case the Higgs Boson seems to be big news. The biggest since-well probably the discovery of the Human Genome-which indeed doesn't seem that long ago.

       "Scientists said they found a subatomic particle resembling the long-elusive Higgs boson, a landmark discovery that could explain why particles have mass and, by extension, why stars, planets and all other objects in the universe exist at all."

     http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304211804577501190349244840.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

     I mean this had been a query of the philosophers since at least the Greeks-'why is there something rather than nothing', why do objects have breadth, depth, etc.

     Actually what ths Higgs Boson does specifically is explain why particles have mass as apparently-they're not supposed to!

     "The Higgs was proposed back in the 1960s to fill a puzzling hole in the "standard model," one of the most successful theories in physics, which describes how matter is built and how particles interact. All particles ought to have zero mass—like photons, the constituents of light—and zip around space unhindered. So why does the universe have plenty of particles with mass?"

      In answer to this question the idea of a the Higgs Bosun was proposed by Higgs himself-who is fortunate to be alive to see.

     "The particle is named after British physicist Peter Higgs, one of the theorists who predicted its existence nearly a half-century ago. Now 83 years old, the unassuming Mr. Higgs attended the meeting in Geneva. Bosuns themselves are named in honor of Satyendra Nath Bose, Albert Einstein's Indian collaborator."

      "Mr. Higgs received a round of applause as he entered the auditorium, and shed a tear when news of the Higgs-like particle was announced. "It is an incredible thing that it has happened in my lifetime," he said."

     "Going back to Galileo and Kepler, "a 400-year-old quest to describe the world that we can see has now been completed," said Gordon Kane, professor of Physics at the University of Michigan. "It completes the standard model."

       "A decade ago, Dr. Kane wagered $100 that the Higgs boson would be found and cosmologist Stephen Hawking bet that it wouldn't. "I assume he's a gentleman and a scholar and will now pay up," said Dr. Kane. The University of Cambridge confirmed Dr. Hawking's bet but couldn't provide further details."

      With the Higgs Boson there's now the chance of explaining enigmatic things in the Standard Theory like Dark Matter. Still, parenthetically, what's interesting is that there are still those who question the Standard Theory and the very existence of Dark Matter. Wonder what they're doing this morning?