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I have a hard time imagining a particle associated with the curvature of spacetime.
by Koshkin 5y ago
I have a hard time imagining a particle associated with the curvature of spacetime.
- LegitShady 5y agothe inability of current science to square relativity and its predictions of space-time with quantum mechanics is exactly the reason why we aren't sure, and one of the biggest open questions in physics. I mean it could all be strings, or quantum gravity, or Wolfram's crazy graph theory automatons, or maybe something else entirely. We don't know.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoI had a really hard time imagining a particle associated with mass (Higgs boson)
- LegitShady 5y agonote that the Higgs is not responsible for all mass as is understood by a layperson. The Higgs field gives mass to subatomic particles but it doesn't translate directly into the mass of objects as we know them. The mass of the three quarks (one up quark and two down quarks) making up a neutron is only about 1% of the mass of a neutron. The rest of the mass comes from strong nuclear force interactions via gluons which are themselves massless.
- Koshkin 5y agoDoesn't this simply follow from the mass-energy equivalence (the energy being that of interaction with the Higgs in this case)? Not to say that said equivalence is intuitively obvious, of course.