Re: Pass me the aether...
Re: The water analogy. The presenter was standing in front of a blackboard. The word "Higgs Boson" was shrunk to a dot and placed on that blackboard as the presentation cut away to a fish in water. The implication was that Higgs Bosons and HIggs Fields were everywhere offering various resistances to particles.
And things like protons, electrons, atoms, molecules are swimming though this Boson sea or fields.
A HIggs Boson weighs about 125 times what a proton does. It doesn't make sense to me at this time that an entire ether of these things can be so massive or the wave form of these bosons can't be found.
Now I'm not saying the researchers are stupid for not finding it. I'm saying I can't wrap my mind around the concept.