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Grade 9General Physics

Does the positive mass conjecture indicate a necessity of interactions in our universe?

Profile image of rishav kumar
12 Years agoGrade 9
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Profile image of Vikas TU
6 Years ago
because non-gravitational yet interacting field theories such as QCD or the Standard Model exist and they don't predict a curved space, the answer to your question is clearly No, interactions don't imply that the spacetime has to be curved.
However, the curved spacetime follows from many other assumptions - or combinations of assumptions - for example from the requirement that the gravitational force (respecting the equivalence principle) simultaneously exists with the relativistic Lorentz invariance.