I’ve watched and read the explanations and still don’t understand it.  I’m sure there’s a simple explanation.

One guy said that the Higgs field is like water, all around us and the resistance to movement in that field is what gives a particle mass.  Sort of like a fish swimming through water.  Well, the boson, if it exists, has a mass of about 130 times a proton.  That’s pretty hefty to be surrounding everything, offering resistance.  If it combines as does water to form that field one would think it would be a very dense soup.

Anyway, there has to be something simple out there to explain how you can add a huge mass, still unseen, to the Universe without going nuts.