Oxalis Triangularis
Let's talk to ourselves about the Higgs Field and the Higgs Boson. What are they? The Higgs Field is everywhere. It permeates all of space, which would be the entire universe. The Higgs Boson is a particle that gambols around the Higgs Field causing the field to ripple. When innocent little free particles, unencumbered and travelling at the speed of light encounter the Higgs ripple they slow down, and by doing so they gather mass, and that's it, they're doomed. So, if you and I were young, free particles heading south for the grape harvest or whatever, the Higgs Boson is like a hot chick or a billionaire on a bar stool. We slow down to give them a sniff, and as a result of temptation we stop being free particles. The point about the Higgs Boson is this: it's not just some idle after hours moment in the back room, the ripple the Higgs Boson makes in the Higgs Field is observable and has been observed. In 2013, a year after the Higgs phenomena was observed, Higgs and Englert were recognized for a contribution they'd made to physics almost fifty years early in 1964 when they first proposed the existence of the Higgs Field and the Higgs Boson. Mathematicians and physicists, including Max Plank (died 1947), Erwin Schrödinger (died 1961), David Bohm (died 1992) and Roger Penrose (94 years old) have all cast their genius into the suggestion that consciousness is, in one way or another, as ubiquitous as the Higgs Field. Whether by consciousness they mean the raw experience of being alive, the Hard Problem, remains uncertain.
