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Old 07-05-2012, 07:29 PM   #1571
Daradon
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Originally Posted by photon View Post
Hm.. well most of the mass from particles like protons and neutrons doesn't actually come from the component quarks' Higgs field interaction (like 1%), it actually comes from the energy binding the quarks together (or something like that, the energy involved in keeping the quarks together to create a proton or neutron anyway).

So blocking Higgs interaction wouldn't remove all (or even very much) of the mass. I think.
That's precisely the opposite they are saying.

You are still looking at mass as a web, theY are putting it down to a point.
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