Wanted this so much to make sense to a layman. Has anyone found a resource that doesn't require a Phd?

I found these helpful:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4193590

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4198392

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4198720

Thanks the first two I had seen and my eyes glazed over. The third one helped...

In a sentence, the Higgs boson is how matter attains mass.

None of the other sub-particles could explain mass until this was proven to exist.

Yeah, this doesn't really help.