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well, 90%+ of the mass of a proton comes from moving stuff, rather than rest mass of the quarks.

so the real world impact is, having anything at all

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.

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

> 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.

I really want to read more about this. It’s fascinating but also very difficult to wrap your head around. I did enjoy the Feynman talks.

And this mass is again an emergent property of Einstein's relativity ...