The Higgs mechanism and me.

The photo is one of a house I pass on my daily walk. Imagine waking up to this. And the street trees were covered. Talk about overkill!
The last song on my iPod on the walk was Townes van Zandt finger picking "Cocaine Blues". Truly a finger picking masterpiece. It transports one to a new level. And the music is cheaper than the real thing.
The Higgs mechanism is the process which gives fundamental particles their mass. The Higgs field, which is a field like a magnetic field or an electric field only different, causes the renowned Higgs particle. The traditional image of gravity is a stretched rubber sheet which is normally flat. Mass (like the sun) causes a dimple in the sheet (or spacetime). My mental image of the Higgs mechanism is that the Higgs field is like the stretched rubber sheet. But in this case the particle is caused by the dimple in the Higgs field rather than the particle causing the distortion. In any case, without the Higgs field there could be no particles and without particles there could be no me... or you. A horse, a horse, my Kingdom for a horse (or the Higgs mechanism).
Or maybe not.
I'm probably full of shit but that's proof enough that we're all on this flight together.

Dick