[msclrhd]

My understanding is that from General Relativity (GR) mass carrying particles (and other energy-momentum) curves space-time, and that curvature is what we understand as gravity. I'm aware of there needing to be an exchange particle due to quantum mechanical (QM) representations, but have not been convinced how they work.

I wonder if the Higgs particle could be a candidate for the force carrier in the QM representation of GR (e.g. the resulting higgs field interacts with and causes space-time curvature instead of energy-momentum doing it directly). That is speculation on my part from a lay-person perspective, so could be completely wrong.

[codethief]

> I wonder if the Higgs particle could be a candidate for the force carrier in the QM representation of GR

It couldn't. The Higgs boson is a scalar particle (spin 0), the graviton (if it exists) must have spin 2.

[erklik]

I have no knowledge beyond first-year university physics i.e General Relativity and my understanding of Gravity was that two masses are attracted to one another, which is due to the "curvature" of spacetime.

However, this sort of stuff i.e. the above article, makes me so curious about the universe and fills me with joy just reading about it. Would you possibly have any suggestions as to what resources one can read preferably books as it allows a journey or at the very least a concrete thing to study. ( I get distracted with wikipedia like websites becuase I jump from link to link and then get completely lost ).

[codethief]

How much time do you have on your hands? And how long-term a commitment are you willing to make?

I'm asking because you don't learn these things over night. Gravity & geometry in particular take quite some time to digest and then there's quantum field theory which, in my opinion, takes even more time and is even harder to digest.

Also, how mathematically inclined are you? Does it bother you when things are not clearly and precisely defined?