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Originally Posted by Daradon
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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I don't get what you mean.
Particles get their mass from interacting with the Higgs field, but energy itself creates a gravitational field but doesn't interact with the Higgs field, so even if you could turn the Higgs field off, energy would still distort spacetime (i.e. have mass), and 99% of the mass of a proton (99% of the deflection of spacetime that a proton makes) is due to energy, not Higgs field interaction.
EDIT: E doesn't just equal mc^2, it includes energy in its full form.
EDIT2: The quarks in a proton add up to a mass of 11 MeV, while the mass of a proton is 938 Mev. The extra 927 MeV comes from the energy in the gluons that hold the quarks together. Gluons don't have intrinsic mass (like photons) because they don't couple directly to the Higgs field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton#..._of_the_proton