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In December last year the Large Hadron Collider at CERN found evidence for the notorious Higgs boson — a subatomic particle whose existence is predicted by theoretical physics but which has never been spotted in the flesh. Also termed the god particle, the Higgs boson is said to have given other particles their mass. But how did it do that? In this two-part article we explore the so-called Higgs mechanism, starting with the humble bar magnet and ending with a dramatic transformation of the early Universe.
Part 2: http://plus.maths.org/content/secret-symmetry-and-higgs-boson-part-ii
