“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

"Every type of particle in the Standard Model is associated with waves propagating in a field—just as photons are associated with waves propagating in the electromagnetic field. But for almost all types of particles, the average amplitude value of the underlying field is zero. But for the Higgs, one imagines something different. One imagines instead that there’s a nonlinear instability that’s built into the mathematical equations that govern it, that leads to a nonzero average value for the field throughout the universe."  Stephan Wolfram, Wired Science