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Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by Manishearth on Friday February 12, 2016 @04:24AM (#11086099)
You're talking about binding energy, and that's not where the majority of mass comes from.

All massive particles get their mass from the Higgs field.

Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by rotorblade on Friday February 12, 2016 @05:45AM (#11086389)
All _fundamental_ particles gets their mass from the Higgs (up to some issues with the neutrinos). Composite particles, say the Proton, is a strongly coupled system (that is, can not be described by perturbation theory) and it does not have the mass being the sum of its constituents (not even most of it). Hence, it is not known what gives most of the mass of particles such as the Proton.
Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by Manishearth on Friday February 12, 2016 @06:31AM (#11086550)
Er, sorry, implicitly was talking about fundamental particles.

IIRC we do know where protons get their mass. The internal color field has some energy, thus some mass, which comes from that field interacting with Higgs.

Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by cyphar on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:52AM (#11102830)
E=mc^2 doesn't come from the Higgs mechanism.
Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by cyphar on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:51AM (#11102828)
This is true for fundamental particles. However, more than 99% of the protons mass doesn't come from its constituent parts. I couldn't find any papers on this question in the 10 minutes I spent googling (and I don't have my QCD textbook handy), but here's a few links:

* http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/64232/your-mass-i... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton#Quarks_and_the_mass_of_...