13K views · 805 reactions | "Well imagine a snowfield..." We asked Peter Higgs to describe the Higgs field - which gives particles in our universe mass - in a simple way. Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2013 with François Englert for the theory of how particles acquire mass. Learn more about the discovery: https://bit.ly/30ktoHs | Nobel Prize | Facebook

CERN pays tribute to Peter Higgs Peter Higgs’ scientific legacy will extend far beyond the scope of current discoveries. The Higgs boson is linked to some of the most intriguing and crucial outstanding questions in fundamental physics. This still quite mysterious particle therefore represents a uniquely promising pathway to physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. | CERN