Recent content by driftwood

Yes. I'm not a science student, I've just been watching some youtube videos about the standard model.

Thanks everyone. Everything was indeed over my head, but at least now I can abandon my misconception about the origin of charge.

I understand that the interaction with the Higgs field (Higgs Bosons) confers mass to elementary particles such as the electron. Does that mean that interaction with an electromagnetic field (photons) confers charge to electrons? If not, what is the origin of charge? Also, how is it that the...