If you are a interested in science fiction series or movies. You should have heard of it - God Particle. I heard of it in famous web series Dark. So, what is it exactly ? You are going to see it. God Particle is actually Higgs Boson. It is a elementary particle produced by Quantum excitation of the Higgs fields. It is named after Peter Higgs, who along with other scientist proposed the Higgs mechanism. This theory was their to explain why particle have mass. Well the name God Particle was not liked by many scientist even including Peter Higgs.
Higgs field is a scalar tachyonic field. It does not transform under Lorentz transformation and it is also imaginary particle. While tachyon are purely hypothetical concepts. Under no circumstances do any excitations ever propagate faster than light in such theories – the presence or absence of a tachyonic mass has no effect whatsoever on the maximum velocity of signals and there is no violation of causality Instead of faster-than-light particles, the imaginary mass creates an instability: Any configuration in which one or more field excitations are tachyonic must spontaneously decay, and the resulting configuration contains no physical tachyons. This process is known as tachyon condensation, and is now believed to be the explanation for how the Higgs mechanism itself arises in nature, and therefore the reason behind electroweak symmetry breaking.
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