RE: If there's nothing in empty space, then how does it get warped by gravity?
October 13, 2016 at 8:59 am
(October 12, 2016 at 5:54 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:(October 12, 2016 at 5:50 pm)Alex K Wrote: Einstein's field equations basically describe how curvature gets communicated between neighboring points in spacetime. In a sense, and speaking very simplistically, the curvature gets communicated by one piece of spacetime getting bent by the next neighboring one, and so on...So would a field at the lowest end of scale act as such a "stretchy fabric"? Would not the Higgs field having specifically to do with mass conference, having been formed right after the inflation of space-time, be intrinsically linked to "gravity" conferred through space?
What do you mean by lowest end of scale, what scale?
The Higgs is kind of tangential to how gravity works - it confers rest energy to particles, and gravity is caused by energy. It could be intrinsically linked to gravity, but from all we know, there could still be gravity if there were no Higgs field.
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