"The Higgs boson is an expression of the Higgs field the mechanism ultimately
responsible for the mass of known particles"
Higgs triumph opens up field of dreams : Nature News & Comment
Or if you want the fable in full drag..here it is..
"The Higgs field explained the split. In the very early Universe, the theory goes, the Higgs field was zero, and the two forces were as one. But shortly after the Big Bang, the field assumed a non-zero value and the forces split apart.
One, which became electromagnetism, is mediated by massless particles of light known as photons, which ignore the Higgs field. The other force
became the weak nuclear force, which causes certain kinds of radioactive decay, and works through heavy particles called W and Z bosons. These interact with the Higgs field and gain mass. Ordinary matter derives most of its mass from subsequent interactions between particles such as quarks, found in the nuclei of atoms."
Higgs triumph opens up field of dreams : Nature News & Comment
Much ado about nothing. In actual fact, finding one more particle in the chain God uses to make stuff has zero to do with anything to do with a fairy tale big bang, or the origin of earth state forces.
I kid you not.