(May 8, 2013 at 7:38 pm)Chuck Wrote:(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.
Is this graviton predicted in the standard model?