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As I understand it, Boson makes particles behave as if they had mass. Gravity doesn't work on things without mass (or pretend mass) so Boson is critical to gra
by ck2 3y ago
As I understand it, Boson makes particles behave as if they had mass.
Gravity doesn't work on things without mass (or pretend mass) so Boson is critical to gravity's behavior?
Related PBS Space Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Q4UAiKacw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Q4UAiKacw
- qnleigh 3y agoActually gravity does affect massless objects. It can bend the path of light, even though photons are massless. See 'gravitational lensing' for some cool photographic evidence :). The Higg's Boson gives mass to many particles; this might be part of what you're thinking of. Whether gravity is described by bosons at its deepest level is strictly speaking an open question, though many models of quantum gravity treat it this way.
- ck2 3y agoGravity does not bend light or move photons. Gravity changes the path light has to take, photons keep going where they were going in the first place. Light doesn't escape a black hole because it is being pulled by gravity, it is just being given an infinite path to travel so it never gets there.