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If a Higgs particle is produced in a proton-proton collision, an LHC detector might infer what you see here. The two red blobs indicate deposits of energy left by particles of light (photons) that are the remnants of the disintegrating Higgs.
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Would we really explode! if the higgs field were to vanish or would the effects be somewhat similar to lack of gravity?
Yes, we’d explode if the Higgs field were turned off suddenly. Our atoms would fall apart with an energy of several electron-volts per atom, which would immediately heat everything to many tens of thousands of degrees and generate an enormous explosion of everything on and in the Earth.
Of course, no human can actually turn off the Higgs field; it would require vast amounts of energy and unimaginable techniques to even try.