• Question: where does gravity come from?

    Asked by hollie to Hephzi, Imogen, Jen, Jennifer, Tom on 9 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Thomas Barrett

      Thomas Barrett answered on 9 Mar 2015:


      Everything with mass has gravity, its just only obvious with large things as gravity is a weak force. We believe mass is given to objects by the Higgs Boson (the things the LHC particle accelerator found). Things without mass do not exert their own gravity.

      In short – having mass gives us gravity.

      I can’t give a more complex answer without my brain melting!

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