Joshua Bell wrote:
>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.
I don't have answers to your questions, but this kind of "weird"
circular logic reminded me of an article in the July 2000 Discover
Magazine, "The Glue that Holds the World Together -- The most we
learn about subatomic particles called gluons, the more the universe
seems to be made of nothing at all".
(http://www.discover.com/jul_00/featgluons.html)
Give it a read, then try not to loose too much sleep over that last
paragraph. :-)
Jeff
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