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by rotorblade 3025 days ago
> graviton particle and the Higgs tells space which way to curve

The Higgs does not play that kind of role. It is a common misconception, since Higgs it often referred to as "giving mass to the other particles", which is true, and called the Higgs-mechanism, it does not influence the curvature of space-time that way. That is all due to the graviton (assuming, which it is also commonly believed, that gravity is quantised).

Mass is one thing, interactions between masses another.

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You took out part of my comment and only commented on the part you took out. In my original statement I made that statement as a hypothetical and in a context supposing there isn’t a graviton particle. My desire was to communicate that for gravitons to fill their hypothesized role for gravity they must somehow transmit the gravity from a BH.