[Right Wing Professor]

Higgs bosons have not yet been experimentally observed, and supposing that they may someday be observed, they are creatures of high energy nuclear physics, having only a very indirect impact on the quantum mechanics of everyday objects. Excepting, perhaps, radioactive decay, they are irrelevant to the question whether the matter we interact with on earth is composed of discrete particles.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for your reply!

Excepting, perhaps, radioactive decay, they [the fields] are irrelevant to the question whether the matter we interact with on earth is composed of discrete particles.

If you wish to view all of the physical realm as comprised of discrete particles, I certainly have no objection. However, I’m also confident the Quantum Field Theory branch of Quantum Mechanics will continue to explore the entity which exists in every point of space, the field – and in particular, will continue to search for the Higgs field/boson to explain mass under the Standard Model.