Little Jimmy: "Daddy, I heard them talking on the news about a God Particle. What's that?"
Me: "That would be the Higgs Boson."
Little Jimmy: "What's a Higgs?"
Me: "That's Mister Higgs to you. He's the guy who postulated that boson."
Jimmy: "What's a boson?"
Me: "There are two kinds of statistics that particles follow. One discovered by Mr. Fermi and one discovered by Mr. Bose. The ones that do what Mr. Fermi says they do are called fermions and the ones that do what Mr. Bose says they do are called bosons."
Jimmy: "And what do they do?"
Me: "Well, to answer that I'll have to use some big, scary words. But they're actually easy to understand."
Jimmy: "Alright."
Me: "That would be the Higgs Boson."
Little Jimmy: "What's a Higgs?"
Me: "That's Mister Higgs to you. He's the guy who postulated that boson."
Jimmy: "What's a boson?"
Me: "There are two kinds of statistics that particles follow. One discovered by Mr. Fermi and one discovered by Mr. Bose. The ones that do what Mr. Fermi says they do are called fermions and the ones that do what Mr. Bose says they do are called bosons."
Jimmy: "And what do they do?"
Me: "Well, to answer that I'll have to use some big, scary words. But they're actually easy to understand."
Jimmy: "Alright."