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Full Idea
The electron gets its mass by interaction with the ubiquitous Higgs field.
Gist of Idea
Electrons get their mass by interaction with the Higgs field
Source
Frank Close (Theories of Everything [2017], 6 'Hierarchy')
Book Ref
Close,Frank: 'Theories of Everything' [Profile Books 2017], p.112
A Reaction
I thought I understood mass until I read this. Is it just wrong to say the mass of a table is the 'amount of stuff' in it?