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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.

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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.
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