Many Americans will mark the country's birthday today, but physicists and science nerds will also celebrate the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs Boson - also known as the 'God Particle' - on July 4. You may not be familiar with physicist Peter Higgs, who first predicted the existence of the new particle in the 1960s and theorized that we are surrounded by an ocean of quantum information known as the Higgs Field, but his Nobel Prize-winning discovery makes everything else in our universe possible. The existence of the Higgs Boson is one reason why everything we see, including ourselves, all planets and stars, has mass and exists - hence why it was called the 'God Particle.'
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