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By: Flip Tanedo

Flip Tanedo — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:15:31 +0000

Hi Dhananjay—my apologies for the very delayed reply. You are welcome to use the images with appropriate attribution to this site. Thanks!

By: Dhananjay

Dhananjay — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:25:05 +0000

Hi.. these animations are fantastic. Am i allowed to use these in my presentations and stuff provided i cite them with this url? awaiting your reply.

By: Flip Tanedo

Flip Tanedo — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:14:29 +0000

Hi David—thanks for the kind words. The Higgs indeed is responsible for the masses of fundamental particles in the Standard Model. You are also correct that mass bends space-time. I should also add, however, that mass is just a specific form of energy, and that a more general statement is that energy bends space-time.

Thus even massless particles (like photons) bend space time… by a little bit.

One way of explaining why the Standard Model has very little to say about quantum gravity is that the “energy densities” that we work with are so small. Recall that black holes are formed when a lot of energy/mass is packed into a small place. Electrons are small—let’s say effectively as small as their compton wavelength—but they’re still too light to create a black hole.

At least in four dimensional spacetime, the physics of the LHC is just too low energy to tell us anything directly about quantum gravity.