Ok Qcmbr, I don't watch Youtube, or read expert explanations so take what I say with a grain of salt. I have an excellent education in classical mechanics through Engineering, and a respectable education in physics due to required courses and elective courses in Quantum Mechanics. I prefer to read data and draw my own conclusions based off my own intelligence rather than listen to others who have read the data and drawn their own conclusions.
The Higgs Field is a field theorized to permeate all space. The easiest analogy for me for a field is a contour map, where a function of two variables have a constant value, such as in elevation maps that many people are familiar with.
You can also liken it to an electromagnetic field, if you are familiar with EMAG. This field interacts with other fields to produce results we can measure.
If you have an understanding of Calculus and Differential Equations, you know implicit integration results in extra terms with coefficients that can only be explicitly solved by knowledge of boundary condititions. These extra terms sometimes result in non-intuitive results such as the coriolis effect that helps explain the behavior of hurricanes.
For subatomic particles, one of these boundary conditions is postulated to be the Higgs Field, a base field that all particles can interact with. In other words, for subatomic particles, the extra terms do not interact with the Higgs Field, the terms go to zero, and the particles have no mass. For other particles, the extra terms do not go to zero, they interact with the Higgs Field, and they result in those particles having mass.
This is complicated by the concept of Symmetry breaking, where the equations predict that two points along the same contour line will have the same value, or at least a total energy value equal to unity. 1/2 + 1/2 =1, 1/2 + 2/3 = 1, 1/4 + 3/4 = 1, etc.
The reality from observations is, that at certain energy levels, symmetry can be broken. Again in other words, we have a non-linearity; i.e. 1 + 1 does not equal 2. After analysis of many hyperelastic materials and elastic materials in the plastic region as an engineer, I can say with no uncertainty, 1 + 1 does not always equal 2. Superposition does not hold in certain ranges, and this can be a very difficult concept to understand.
I have probably done nothing to answer your original question. The Universe can be described as a set of non-linear partial differential equations which are extremely difficult if not impossible to solve.