Your Mass is NOT From the Higgs Boson

The Higgs mechanism is meant to account for the mass of everything, right? Well no, only the fundamental particles, which means that electrons derive their mass entirely from the Higgs interaction but protons and neutrons, made of quarks, do not. In fact the quark masses are so small that they only make up about 1% of the mass of the proton (and a similar fraction of the neutron). The rest of the mass comes from the energy in the gluon field. Gluons are massless, but there is so much energy in the field that by E=mc^2 there is a significant amount of mass there. This is where most of your mass comes from and the mass of virtually everything around you.

[TheGert]

Could you just imagine walking through a park and then you hear someone in the distance yelling about quantum particles and subatomic theories

[Lugmillord]

I'm not fat. I just have more energy in my gluon fluctuations.

[mgr]

Q: How to lose weight?
A: *_Be cool_*

[thomasmaughan]

"Your Mass is NOT From the Higgs Boson" Doughnuts is the culprit.

[Dragonblaster]

It absolutely blew my mind when I first learned that most of my mass comes from the mass-energy exchanged by the _massless_ gluons in my constituent nucleons.

[YouKnow]

Imagine if you lived in that house at 1:10.  You'd look out the window into your lawn and see this man enthusiastically talking to his camera.

[helloimnisha]

Oh I remember watching this video back when I was in highschool and I didn't understand a thing. And now I'm graduating in theoretical physics and I can finally say that I understood most of it. I love this channel so much. ✊

[LabGoats]

"You have to imagine this beach rippling and the bumps sort of coming and going."
You mean like in the ocean next to you? ;P

[zeekjones]

Space is full, massive objects are hollow.
Oh the wonderful subatomic world.

[HarryHeck]

I see now. That explains why the flux capacitor is Y shaped. Dr. Emmett Brown was right!

[lexuankhoi-james]

Quark: You're weak!
Antiquark: I'm you!

[toothless-fuqe]

I like how I don't understand anything but still interested in watching.

[colincrane]

For the record, this video spawned an entire day of me learning to understand all the subatomic particles...

[Person-pckb]

1:51 imagine strolling through the beach and just seeing a guy doing this and talking to himself about undulations and fluctuations

[uesdtosignin]

3:24
2013: We know that that picture is totally wrong now.
2019: We still use this picture.

[hasen]

So basically, the proton is not an object in the void, but rather it's a pocket of *void* in a noise field, and maintaining this void requires energy.

[pjotoole]

Derek is a great teacher. He's passionate, clear and entertaining while he explains the complex using simple terms.

[mmmhorsesteaks]

He ain't heavy... He's packed with energy from quarks and their interaction with fluctuations in the gluon field.

[MrHuntaKan]

-"... so where is the rest of the mass coming from?"
Me: Energy?
Derek: -The answer is energy.


Havin' said the right answer just one time after seein' a lot of science vids was the highlight of my week (even if I'm still dumb).

[SkyrimHod]

Y-shaped flux tubes
Y-shaped flux capacitor
Coincidence?