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>we know that light can be bent by the warping of space-time due to gravity

That literally is light obeying gravity. Gravity interacts exclusively by the warping of space-time. Gravity and the Higgs field are completely 100% unrelated.

https://profmattstrassler.com/2012/10/15/why-the-higgs-and-g...

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Thank you for that link, it clears up a lot!

> Gravity and the Higgs field are completely 100% unrelated.

That is an incredible insight for me -- I never thought of it that way. So the thing that creates inertia (mass) is not the same as the thing that generates gravitational force -- they're just correlated in the types of matter that beings like us can interact with?

IANAP, but IIRC while the higgs field gives mass to electrons, quarks, the W bosons and a few more particles, the vast majority of the mass of the atom (and thus of what we normally call matter) is due to the binding energy of quarks and gluons and not related to the higgs field.

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