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A comment on Why Understanding Space Is So Hard (2016).

Re:Why Understanding Space Is So Hard (2016) by platz on Sunday January 21, 2018 @12:18PM (#16198869)
1. The Higgs field goes one better: By offering resistance to anything that passes through it, it may explain why objects have inertia in the first place.

Why doesn't the higgs field slow down objects moving in space?

2. If gravity is simply the curvature of spacetime itself, the higgs field gives particles mass, and mass curves spacetime, what is the relationship between the curvature of spacetime and the higgs field exactly, is it special somehow? (It seems somehow the way the higgs "offers resistance" is related to the curvature of spacetime)

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Re:Why Understanding Space Is So Hard (2016) by psadauskas on Sunday January 21, 2018 @12:40PM (#16199008)
As far as I understand it, the Higgs field isn’t resistance to motion but rather resistance to acceleration.
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