Allan Milne Lees
1 min readDec 14, 2019

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There is a lot of misunderstanding regarding the Higgs boson and the way in which the Higgs field interacts with the Z boson. Most people don’t realize that 99% of any atom’s mass comes from the energy inherent in the constituent components (quarks & gluons) and only around1% of the mass comes from interaction with the Higgs field. Leonard Susskind does a great job of explaining very simply how the physics works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqNg819PiZY&t=5s

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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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