At most simple
levels of material synthesis, individual nodes
of organization like
subatomic particles are only determinate as functions within a bigger framework, so it is perhaps not surprising that their behaviour can only be expressed in terms
of statistical probability.
The discovery
of the Higgs boson represents the final piece
of the puzzle in the Standard Model
of particle physics, a theory that describes how three
of the four fundamental forces — electromagnetic, weak and strong nuclear forces — interact at the
subatomic level (but does not include gravity).