Much like the discovery of dark energy in cosmology, the experimental discovery of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson shows once again that empty space is not empty but filled with invisible fields, one of which is responsible for part of the mass of the matter that makes up almost everything we encounter in daily life. It also demonstrates that nature really does make use of scalar fields as one of the key ingredients it has at its disposal to shape the physical world. As such, the discovery of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson lends credence to the existence of a similar field that could have driven
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