The Higgs mechanism was proposed in 1964 by six physicists, including the Edinburgh-based theoretician Peter Higgs, to explain how it is that some particles gain their mass.

The theories on the Higgs' implications for physics throw up the idea of possibility of a cyclical universe, in which every so often all of space is renewed.

That means there is no beginning or end of the universe. The beginning is the end. The Big Bang Universe we observe today is just the latest version in a permanent cycle of events.

Now you know how the universe began and how it will end.