John Carlos Baez on Nostr: The Higgs boson gives elementary particles their mass, but 98% of the visible mass in ...
The Higgs boson gives elementary particles their mass, but 98% of the visible mass in the Universe (not dark matter) comes from a less famous mechanism: chiral symmetry breaking. This is why protons and neutrons are so much heavier than their quarks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral_symmetry_breakingPublished at
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