SLAC Colloquium - Why Look for the Higgs?

In the next year, the Large Hadron Collider promises to say something definitive about the existence of the Higgs boson.  In this talk, Professor Tim Tait will review why the Standard Model of particles physics requires a Higgs boson to give masses to all of the other fundamental particles, how we look for it at the Large Hadron Collider, and what finding it can tell us about nature