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proxyesterday at 4:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

I think I recently learned that the Higgs is actually not that much part of imparting mass for atomic particles. I thought it imparted all mass.


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mr_toadyesterday at 7:52 PM

> I thought it imparted all mass.

It’s all relative; in the quarks frame of reference it does get all its mass from the interaction with the Higgs field.

ChrisClarkyesterday at 5:06 PM

just enough to keep electrons from staying at light speed like photons