The Higgs Boson: Why Scientists Went Looking for the “God Particle” If you could peel back reality to its smallest ingredients, what would you find? Not atoms, not even protons and neutrons, but a zoo of tiny particles interacting through invisible forces. The image above tells the story of one of the most important ideas in modern physics: the Higgs boson and how it fits into the Standard Model, our best framework for understanding the sub-atomic world. This is a story about mass, forces, and a