Your Mass is NOT From the Higgs Boson

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  • April 5, 2016 at 11:42 am #41479
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    April 5, 2016 at 11:55 am #41480
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    April 5, 2016 at 12:03 pm #41482
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    My mass is because I eat too much.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    April 13, 2016 at 1:32 am #41814
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    Your Mass is NOT From the Higgs Boson

    You know, back in the last year or 2 of the old huddle board, I wrote something about that.

    Mass in a proton is bound energy from quark/gluon interactions. That’s where most of our mass comes from.

    It’s a dense concept but interesting.

    April 13, 2016 at 6:15 pm #41841
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    In fact, the new work confirms that the mass of the stuff around us is due only in very small part to the masses of quarks themselves. Most of it comes from the way they interact inside baryons. “Ninety-nine per cent of the mass of the proton and neutron, and therefore the visible Universe, is QCD binding energy,” says Davies. “The Higgs then just explains the 1% of it that comes from quark masses.” All the same, she adds, where that last per cent comes from is still “a very important fundamental question”.

    http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081120/full/news.2008.1246.html

    April 14, 2016 at 7:14 am #41850
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    I believe this will simplify things:

    "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

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