What Makes the Higgs Boson Essential for Understanding Mass?

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I vaguely know the Higgs boson and how it possibly explains how mass doesn't dissipate. However, I need a more in-depth explanation, preferably not Wikipedia's, about it. Thank you!
 
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bcphysicist said:
I vaguely know the Higgs boson and how it possibly explains how mass doesn't dissipate. However, I need a more in-depth explanation, preferably not Wikipedia's, about it. Thank you!

I cannot reproduce the discussion without review, but Lisa Randall in Warped Passages has a pretty extensive qualitative discussion of it.
 
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