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Listener Questions 39: gravitons, antimatter and unified forces!

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Higgs Boson and the Gravity

The Higgs boson is a boson, but it doesn't have a force associated with it. It just kind of interacts with particles in order to give them the effect of inertia. There are versions of gravitational theories that try to make it into a quantum force. Maybe gravity isn't the curvature of space time like Einstein described. And if that's the case, it would have a boson called the graviton.

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