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To: metmom

“Gravity is a particle? Please provide evidence to support your contention.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=535
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Graviton.html
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TJK-4FB9FRP-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=8e62691fe0a5083267999c7d776fc558

Forces are not particles, but they are mediated by particles. Which is what I said, and not what you misquoted.

Your inability to see gravity does not make it unobservable. You cannot see radio waves, nor can you detect them without instruments, but they are the same phenomena as visible light.


822 posted on 01/02/2009 7:40:00 AM PST by js1138
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To: js1138
In physics, the graviton is a hypothetical elementary particle that mediates the force of gravity in the framework of quantum field theory. If it exists, the graviton must be massless (because the gravitational force has unlimited range) and must have a spin of 2 (because gravity is a second-rank tensor field[clarification needed]).

Gravitons are postulated because of the great success of the quantum field theory (in particular, the Standard Model) at modeling the behavior of all other forces of nature with similar particles: electromagnetism with the photon, the strong interaction with the gluons, and the weak interaction with the W and Z bosons. In this framework, the gravitational interaction is mediated by gravitons, instead of being described in terms of curved spacetime as in general relativity. In the classical limit, both approaches give identical results, which are required to conform to Newton's law of gravitation.[4][5][6]

You have in no way demonstrated that they do, in fact, exist as particles.

You cannot see radio waves, nor can you detect them without instruments, but they are the same phenomena as visible light.

Yes, radio waves are. They are part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Are you saying, then, that gravity is part of the electromagnetic spectrum?

851 posted on 01/02/2009 2:52:25 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: js1138
Your inability to see gravity does not make it unobservable.

She said it wasn't material. Try to stay on task.

854 posted on 01/02/2009 4:25:09 PM PST by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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