The Importance of the Higgs Boson

I was reading about the Higgs Boson the other day and was overwhelmed by the great significance of its discovery in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva Switzerland. Allow me to quote professor Sean Carrol from the California Institute of Technology: " The Higgs Boson is the capstone of the standard model of particle physics....."  "Without the Higgs the standard model wouldn't work,....." "what we perceive as particles are really vibrations in fields that pervade all of space." "The vibrations of a Higgs field are seen as Higgs bosons and unlike other fields which have a zero value in empty space, the Higgs is nonzero everywhere." Other particles traveling through the Higgs field interact with it and feel its influence. 

So what? you might say. The reason this is so important is that all matter is made up of atoms, which consist of electrons orbiting atomic nuclei. If it weren't for the Higgs field, those electrons would have zero mass, moving at the speed of light never able to slow down enough to bind with a nuclei. The world of ordinary matter would be a soup of particles continuously speeding at the speed of light never slowing down enough to create matter. There would be no atoms, no molecules, no chemistry, NO LIFE.

I thought this discovery was so awesome that it deserved a moment of thought.