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Does the Higgs Boson give matter Gravitational Forces?

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Does the Higgs Boson give matter Gravitational Forces?
« on: 03/06/2017 22:36:29 »
David Spence has written to ask:

If the Higgs Boson gives matter Mass, would the Higgs Boson also give matter Gravitational Forces?

What do you think?
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Re: Does the Higgs Boson give matter Gravitational Forces?
« Reply #1 on: 04/06/2017 00:13:33 »
The fact that Inertial and Gravitational mass always seem to be the same must be more than a coincidence - but it isn't one that we can explain today.

The Higgs field+boson is a quantum effect that gives matter Inertial Mass. However, we currently have no established theory of quantum gravity, so we don't have a quantum mechanism that would give matter Gravitational Mass.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass#Inertial_vs._gravitational_mass
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