[who_would_fardels_bear]

"the invisible particle that gives everything mass"

I don't think this statement is true.

I heard that Higgs bosons only give some types of matter mass.

[Dave Wright]

This article contains several glaring errors. First, the Higg’s boson gives all Fermionic matter their masses. This is all the particles in the Standard Model. These particles are light enough to be detected by our current technology. It does not appear to give dark matter particles their masses since these are far more massive than the Higg’s itself and would require a coupling constant of greater than 1. The article says the Higg’s has no mass but that is incorrect. The Higg’s interacts with itself to create the 126 MeV mass that the LHC measured. Also, dark matter is only about 26 percent of the mass/energy of the universe. Dark energy makes up about 70%.