The Higgs boson

The Higgs boson is not a mystical particle, and it does not create most of the mass in the universe. It is evidence for the existence of the Higgs field, a field that fills all of space. Fundamental particles like quarks and electrons interact with this field. That interaction gives them rest mass. Most of the mass of everyday matter comes from energy binding quarks together inside protons and neutrons, not directly from the Higgs field. But without the Higgs field, those particles would be mass