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by mr_toad 653 days ago
> the model without it lacked sufficient gravity to match the world around us

True, but 99% of the rest mass of a Proton comes from the gluon field, not the Higgs mechanism. The universe wouldn’t fly apart without the Higgs field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chromodynamics_binding...