How can the Higgs Boson/field simultaneously have mass and embue other particles with mass? Does the Higgs interact with itself?

Yes, the Higgs self-interacts. You see this as the scalar field has a potential. Look at the quartic term in the Higgs potential.

I'll need to dust up on my math before I go that deep, just trying to understand things from a semantically descriptive perspective for now.

It's good to know I can use my inductive logic, sometimes, to get a good hypothesis. It's nice to know it's the correct one too.

No offense meant, and the comment is more a general one than about this particular question: But I think one should not get over-excited about occasionally guessing the answer to a yes/no question correctly.

 

EDIT: @Sorcerer's post below (don't want to derail the thread with a separate response): I somehow had the urge to make the statement above, since I too often wonder about people wanting themselves or some phenomena to be taken seriously for having the accuracy of a random number generator. You are indeed correct that it does not exactly match to the statement you were trying to make.

Edited August 4, 201510 yr by timo

No offense meant, and the comment is more a general one than about this particular question: But I think one should not get over-excited about occasionally guessing the answer to a yes/no question correctly.

The answer wasn't the big deal, it was being able to induct the correct question to ask.