
Originally Posted by
Markus Hanke
Well, it doesn't really carry any force as such, unless you want to regard the breaking of electroweak symmetry as a new fundamental force of nature, which you could do as a matter of fact. It's a matter of definition, and the scientific community seems to have decided not to do this at the moment. The Higgs is classified as a boson because it has an integer-valued spin ( spin 0 ), as opposed to half-integer spin fermions. All particles of integer spin ( 0,1,2... ) are by definition bosons regardless of whether they carry force or not; the ones that carry force are more precisely termed vector bosons.