Since the decades, we are explaining problems with laws.For instance Newton discovered his laws of gravitation with the aid of calculus,which he essentialt had to invent on his own. However he spent years to explain these rules.
These rules should explain the laws at larger scales. They must be simple and economical. The basics of the so-called quantum field theory-the theoretical context in which the Higgs boson resides are explanatory.
In the 1960's as a way to allow symmetry in the underlying structure of a theory while the physical manifestation of the theory did not exhibit such symmetry.Physicists were coming to realize that symmetries play a central role in physical law. In 1967