bowtiesarecool
Junior Member
Bowties where have you been ? Higgs Boson has been in the news a lot. A boson is a "force carrying" particle. The Higgs Boson , which they at first conjectured had to exist theoritically , is the boson that carries the GRAVITY force. Last year they had some good evidence they had actually found it. They still got a lot of work to do though. Confirming something exists isn't the same thing as knowing exactly what it is and how it works .
Like a few hundred years ago suspecting there was something tiny called germs that caused disease , then discovering they were for real in a microscope, didn't immediately mean we knew everything about them.
But we do know that gravity slows down light and bends spacetime.
Gravity is one of the FOUR fundamental forces, see here:
The Four Forces of Nature
Thanks, vodkafan. And thanks for explaining in plain English too. I appreciate that. And I don't know where I've been that I hadn't heard about it..but I hadn't. Thanks to you, I know now though.
