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Is there something that is not affected by gravity?

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Is there something that is not affected by gravity?
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RE: Is there something that is not affected by gravity?
May 8, 2013 at 7:38 pm (This post was last modified: May 8, 2013 at 7:42 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 8, 2013 at 6:39 pm)A_Nony_Mouse Wrote: And the Higgs Boson is what?

It is not the graviton. It is the excited state of a field whose interaction with some elementary particles gives those particles their mass. Higgs boson itself has mass. Graviton, if it exists, ought to be massless.
(May 8, 2013 at 8:39 am)Love Wrote: I think it is important to highlight the fact that the "graviton" has not been observed empirically; it only exists in mathematical form, and could ultimately prove to be untestable.

The gravity wave experiment is designed to test for gravitons.
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RE: Is there something that is not affected by gravity? - by Anomalocaris - May 8, 2013 at 7:38 pm

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