A Brief History of Time Nobel Prizewinner Bill Phillips (#265)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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What Is the Mass of the Nucleus?
So electrons are fundamental particles. They have a certain mass and we now understand that they get their mass from the Higgs field. Most of the mass is not equal to the sum of the masses, the quarks because there's a binding energy. And it works the wrong way. Usually something that's tightly bound is going to have a lower mass than theSum of the other masses. But because the weird way in which the forces between nucleons work it works the other way. So I don't know if that answers the question. No I think it does yeah.
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