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Is there any relation between the gravity field and the higgs field?
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This is a very common misconception. People see "things with lots of mass strongly interact with gravity" and "the higgs field give the fundamental particles mass" and associate mass with mass and assume they are related.

The higgs has very little to do with gravity. Of the 4 forces: gravity, electromagnetism, weak-nuclear, strong-nuclear the higgs is most associated with the weak force (technically the electro-weak force, the combined version of electromagnetism + weak)

In fact, the mass of things like stars and planets has very little to do with the higgs at all. Stars and planets are made out of atoms, and atoms have MOST of their mass not due to the masses of the quarks and elecrons, but of the binding energy of the quarks to each other.

A proton is almost 1000 MeV but the quarks are just a few MeV each. Most of the mass comes from the energy of binding the quarks together to make a proton. Since E=mc^2 for particles without momentum, the rest mass of the proton is mostly due to the energy of binding the proton together!

So the mass of a star has very little to do with the higgs field, and therefore the gravitaional field from the star is not really related to the higgs.

However, on some level ALL of the forces are related somehow, as everything is interacting. Even photons interact with gravity. However there is no deep or direct relationship between gravity and the higgs, at least not more so than anything else is related to gravity.