Joshua Bell wrote:
>
> Anyway, my question: does anyone have any idea how the
> concept of mass as caused by the Higgs field maps to GR's
> notion of mass causing distortions in spacetime? The
> "billiard balls on a rubber sheet" analogy make perfect sense
> to me until we rip the masses out of the picture as a
> fundamental property of matter. Help!
Josh (referring to himself in the third person) ponders:
Given that energy distorts spacetime "too", is it the energy bundled up
in the interaction between particles and the Higgs field that we should
think of as causing the distortion? Hmmm... that's almost a tautology
with the above definition: if mass *is* the interaction, then the energy
of that interaction that causes the distortion.
Joshua
