Random thought: So what if what we think of as a graviton (the theoretical particle that gives us gravity) and the higgs field (not the same as a higgs boson) is actually the same thing?
Matter runs into higgs field and the more of it that piece of matter interacts with it, the more mass that matter has. Perhaps it's not that matter gets slowed down but still remains separate from the higgs field, but instead, portions of the massless higgs field combine with waves that are attracted to it (since everything in the universe is basically just waves) and combine to form what we know of as matter.
Perhaps the higgs field is just naturally attracted to itself, and such large concentrations of it in one place make other pieces of it (which are essentially fused to waves to make matter, and therefore drag those waves, or in other words, us, along). Following this logic, perhaps the theoretical graviton is just the higgs field and with the creation of a higgs boson and therefore validation of the higgs field theory, we've already discovered it. Granted, I know almost nothing (well closer to nothing than actual physicists) about quantum physics, but this is just something that occurred to me as a possibility. Is there any reason current science knows about of why that might not be the case?
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