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Quatters  ·  4836 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 95% chance there is no Higgs.
I thought the premise behind the Higgs was that it was part of a process that gave a particle it's mass, therefore being instrumental in the way the universe operates. I guess it's all a bit uncertain, shall we say?




mk  ·  4836 days ago  ·  link  ·  
True. But mass and gravitation are proportional. It would be very surprising if they weren't intimately related. The idea was that the Higgs created a field that defined this relationship/these characteristics. I agree it's very uncertain. :) pretty exciting, I think.