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Sadly, the mass media continues to mislead people. The Higgs field contributes about 1% of the mass of protons and neutrons, with the remaining 99% of their rest mass coming from the kinetic energy of their constituent parts (quarks & gluons). The Higgs field is indeed important, but it's not "the god particle" except in nonsense written by journalists desperate to get a byline by means of, once again, sensationalizing something they don't actually understand. For an adequate description, Wikipedia has this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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