The Higgs Particle is supposed to be THE particle. The one that holds everything together. Without it, nothing as we know it would be able to exist.
Well, yes and no. The Higgs particle is what gives the particles involved in alpha/beta radiation their mass (The W and Z bosons), which is what allows nuclear decay and fission to happen. It's not any more important than any other particles of the Standard Model, but it does play a unique role in allowing massless particles to obtain a mass.
Before the Higgs particle was found it was thought to be either at 115Gev or 140Gev. If the Higgs Particle was found to be at 115Gev it would support the Super Symmetry Theory. If however the Higgs Particle was found to be at 140Gev then it would support the Multiverse Theory.
Well, the reasonable bounds were between 90-200 GeV, if memory serves. 115 GeV would have indicated TeV-scale supersymmetry, yes, but SUSY isn't falsified by a mass of 126 GeV. The other data coming out of the LHC largely disfavors TeV-scale SUSY.
Now in laymans terms Super Symmetry in physics is essentially where everything in the universe has a pattern that is, if given enough time and research, detectable and understandable.
Well, I suppose so, but that's sort of true for all theories of physics. More specifically, supersymmetry (SUSY) states that every particle we observe in nature must have a "partner" particle at the same mass, but a different spin. Realistically, SUSY must be broken at low energies since we haven't found these partner particles (they must be far more massive), and there are models that show how to do this. Because of a conjectured --plausible, but not necessarily logically necessary-- idea, called "technical naturalness," it was held that the Higgs and SUSY could very well be related.
(It's worth stating that SUSY true power in modern theoretical physics is it's ability to simplify quantum theories. If you take a quantum theory and enhance it's symmetries to include supersymmetry, the theory has significantly simplified quantum properties. Whether or not TeV-scale SUSY is true has little baring on most modern researchers use of SUSY.)
It is one reason that the Higgs Particle is also considered the God Particle.
Funny thing: The actual author of that name didn't call it the "God Particle," he called it the "Goddamn Particle" because it was so difficult to experimentally detect, relative to the other particles in the Standard Model. Their editor said they couldn't publish that, so the editor instead called it "the God particle." The public's imagination sort of carried it off from there.
Because such symmetry would in essence prove that, as one physics scientist put it, "someone was out there continually fiddling with the buttons to make everything just right for life to exist". Now of course this doesn't prove that there would be or is actually a God out there. [...]
They aren't really resonating, they're just in causally disconnected pockets of the universe that fell into different vacuaa of the Higgs field as the early universe rapidly expanded and cooled. But otherwise, yes, that's essentially it.
When they found the Higgs Particle they found something that they weren't expecting. It didn't resonate at either 115Gev or 140Gev. It actually resonated at 126.5Gev. [...] So my question to you all is this....What does the Higgs particle being at 126.5Gev mean? Or, what other possible explanations could explain a Higgs Particle being at 126.5Gev?
It means that the most vanilla model of particle physics, the "Standard Model" that was written down in the 1970's, is likely all there is at energy scales around a few TeV and possibly well beyond those energies. Bare in mind that 126.5 is totally compatible and is not at all unexpected or unusual for the ordinary Standard Model (No SUSY, no other considerations).
There's certain things that you can take away from this, but they're all heavily qualified. The fact that there's no SUSY at order the TeV scale is interesting. That tells us that unless something radical happens between a few TeV and ~10,000,000,000 TeV or 10^11 TeV, then the forces of physics will not unify. They will all narrowly miss unifying, and thus "Grand Unified Theories" of physics --where the E&M, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear unify-- are unlikely to be true. In some sense, it's the worst of all possible worlds for a researcher: There's nothing to suggest any new physics until we get to new much higher energies (but there will necessarily be new physics at ~10,000,000,000,000,000 TeV or 10^16 TeV, and there may or may not be any new physics before then. Dark matter strongly suggests that there should be new physics before then.).
