Most of the mass of a proton actually comes from:

  1. the Higgs mass of its quarks alone
  2. the energy of the strong interactions among quarks and gluons
  3. electrons
  4. neutrinos
Answer

B) the energy of the strong interactions among quarks and gluons

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