I'm an airchair physics person so I'm curious how close my layman understanding of this matches reality... So Higgs particles don't exist under normal conditions, they're just proof that the Higgs field exists and explains how mass exists. When the energy that's perturbing the Higgs field dissipates it does so through other fields perturbing them to create one of their particles and so on.
Sci-Fi or Fact or somewhere in the middle?