we were talking about something called the hagues bozon particle.xplain what that is. >> it's a theoretical thing that we think is responsible for mass in the universe. >> stephen: subatomic? >> subatomic parliament. why does this table have mass. >> stephen: it's wood. it's made of wood. go ahead. next question, physics man. >> we need not bother building this thing. so it's a particle that we thing is responsible for that, generating mass in the universe. >> stephen: it gives mass to things. >> to everything. last time i was on we were talking about it, and there were theories about people coming back from the future. it was all nonsense. i think bollox was the word i used. as of last week, we might see hints of it for the first time. >> stephen: hints of? >> this thing, this particle. it may well exist. >> stephen: what does it mean to find this? >> it's a fundamental part of our theory of everything in the universe other than gravity. so every phenomenon, electricity, magnetism, the way nuke lee eats stick together. the heart of the theory is th