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Why is it called the Higgs boson?
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The Higgs boson was named after the physicist Peter Higgs. He proposed the idea of the Higgs field in the 1960s. The Higgs field is a hypothetical field that permeates all of space and holds particles together. It was hypothesized that the Higgs field would interact with the particles that make up the matter we see around us. When the Higgs field interacts with a particle, it gives the particle mass.