Not really! The Higgs mechanism explains why elementary particles, such as quarks and electrons, have non-zero mass. Almost all of the mass of ordinary matter

Not really! The Higgs mechanism explains why elementary particles, such as quarks and electrons, have non-zero mass. Almost all of the mass of ordinary matter is composed of nucleons (protons and neutrons), which are made of 3 quarks each. But the quarks' masses only account for about 1% of a nucleon's mass. The quarks are bound together incredibly tightly by the strong nuclear force (mediated by gluons), and it's the mass-energy associated with this gluon field that is responsible for the remaining mass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton#Quarks_and_the_mass_of_a_proton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton#Quarks_and_the_mass_of_...