From Stuart Bell
I was intrigued by the article about trying to track down the Higgs boson (28 June, p 13). It says that it is the Higgs field that “pervades the universe and endows matter with mass”. Later it says that the Higgs particle is expected to have a mass of between 114 and 211 gigaelectronvolts.
So what gives the Higgs particle its mass? Or does it pervade itself and so is self-fulfilling?
Bridgwater, Somerset, UK
