Thanks Raz - ok here is a basic logical leap I'm failing to make and I can't find a good expalnation of it yet.
I am happy with the concept of the Higgs Field but is the field expressed by the Higgs Bosun or is the Higgs Bosun an evidence of the field? If the field is caused by the Higgs bosun and all matter is equally affected then Higgs bosuns must be all over the place which seems at odds with the idea that they decay so quickly and can only be 'seen' in a collision scenario. How can a rapidly decaying particle be responsible for a stable field? However, if the Higgs bosun is simply the result of exciting the underlying field such that it momentarily changes state (to a particle) and then decays away then I can almost square that.
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