“Without the Higgs mechanism all particles would travel at the speed of light and atoms would not exist.”
This kind of thinking is what passes for science nowadays.
Sorry, scientists. The universe has been functioning quite well without your silly theories. All particles don’t travel at the speed of light, and atoms do exist.
The universe doesn’t depend on your equations. The job of your equations is to describe the universe. If they don’t, they are invalid and you have to keep calculating.
So your understanding of the universe depends on having seen the trace of a particle moving at the expected angle with roughly the expected mass. Very shaky base to build your model of the universe on.
“Sorry, scientists. The universe has been functioning quite well without your silly theories. All particles don’t travel at the speed of light, and atoms do exist.”
Which is exactly their point, the Higgs field does exist, so particles do exist and have mass. BTW the Higgs Boson is only proof of the Higgs field that gives particles mass.
You can believe in magic, but I will stick to science.