In article , "Lloyd
E. Sponenburgh" says...

"Stormin Mormon" fired this volley in
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What are we talking about?

The Higgs boson. "Discovered" in mathematics in 1964 by himself and two
other independent theoretical physicists.

It took until now to verify its existance. It makes a big difference in
how physicists will approach describing physical substances in the
future.

Actually it won't. It's part of the standard model. Change would have
come about if it had not been discovered.

It's supposed to be the fundamental particle that gives all other larger
particles mass.

All other particles mass (with a few exceptions). Not all other larger
particles. The Higgs is huge, there are few larger particles. And it's
actually the Higgs field, of which the Higgs Boson is a manifestation,
that is responsible for mass.

It also rapidly decays into smaller particles ?!? What are THEY???

Mostly quarks and antiquarks.

http://profmattstrassler.com/article...-particle/the-
standard-model-higgs/decays-of-the-standard-model-higgs/ has more
detail if you're interested.

"Scale" may not have a limit in either direction.

If it doesn't at the small end then quantum theory is wrong. Since the
Higgs is predicted by quantum theory, the discovery of it is another
confirmation of quantum theory and thus does nothing to suggest that the
Planck scale is wrong.