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This is meant for our younger readers who have only seen popular accounts of where mass comes from.

They often say it comes from the Higgs boson, which is sort of true. But it is deeper than that. Sabine has given a deeper popular account in the following video:



As an aside, forget this virtual particle popping in and out of existence stuff. That, again, is pop-sci fiction, but here it is useful in getting an intuitive idea of something that is quite complex.Thanks
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I think that his has become a classic in YouTube physics. Many popular physics channel already have made a video about this.
 
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Is that like Cher or Madonna?
 
Or Sabrina?
 

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