What is the difference between a Higgs Boson and a Graviton? | Physics | Science Cafe LR

Damon Spayde discusses:
The Higgs-boson.
Gravitons.

[xkhokokox]

That's a clear answer. No need to search any further, I finally got it within a minute! Awesome, thank you sir!

[ExtremeExample]

Because photons are not directly affected by gravity. A black hole for example, does not directly affect a photon, but rather affects the space around the photon. It's bends space (as well as time), and this will lead to the photon being affected indirectly.

[raptor]

We could cut out the middle man, almost seems contradictory there...if a graviton carries the force, but a higgs boson is what gives a particle mass, doesnt that mean we piggy-backed a HB on a graviton? But massive particles cannot travel at the speed of light...

[dusteranonanonanon]

If the higgs gives other particles mass, which lets them experience gravity, how are massless photons effected by gravity?
Could gravity simply be the residuum of higgs interactions which causes particles to have mass and warp spacetime?

[trclocke]

type a question into google, youtube immediately gives me an exact answer. Goddamn I love the internet.

[Fearnil]

Sorry for derailing this conversation but.... "The Higgs Boson is in some sense the thing that gives the particles the ability to feel that graviton and experience the Force"... Thus...the Higgs Boson is a particle's version of midichlorians. Apollogies. Had to.

[jujuandjesus]

This is an awesome idea, but the graviton seems like a pipe dream (oh to be sharing that pipe with the guys who dreamed this shit up XD ).

[Claptonisgodyeah]

That's what happened to me too, got emotional for a second, felt like google and me talking. I love the information age.

[KraftConsulting]

I love it. Direct and in sound bites.
Graviton = the force carrier
H-B = gives particles mass do they can feel the force
Got it!

[priteshsrivastava]

If higgs boson gives mass, what gives charge?

[CACBCCCU]

Seems to me the purpose of the Higgs boson is to make it look like physicists don't understand what binding energy is about. Physicists also generally use (and accordingly, I feel compelled to employ) the phrase "very small scales" where "highly-compressed scales" would be vastly more descriptive.

[surearrow]

"Well, the graviton is what keeps a Jedi on the ground. It's an energy field created by all things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together."

[OmegaKent]

OK, now i'm really confused. Thanks for that.

[STARDRIVE]

More likely gravitons exist and Higgs bosons do not.