Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The massless, neutral gauge boson postulated to mediate the gravitational interaction; the quantum of gravitational energy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) A theoretical gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles; the quantum of the gravitational field, having zero rest mass and a spin of 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics A
hypothetical gauge boson that regulates thegravitational force. It would have aspin of 2 and zerorest mass .
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- noun a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Accordingly one attempts to treat the gravitational field as consisting of quantum - mechanical particles to which the name graviton has been given.
RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968
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Some, mostly string theorists, posit the existence of a massless particle they've dubbed the graviton and claim that it is responsible for mediating the force of gravity, a force that has unlimited range.
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Gravity, Evolution and Religious Dogma 2010
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Some, mostly string theorists, posit the existence of a massless particle they've dubbed the graviton and claim that it is responsible for mediating the force of gravity, a force that has unlimited range.
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Gravity, Evolution and Religious Dogma 2010
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For this reason the putative quantum particle of a gravity wave, called the graviton, is said to have an intrinsic spin of two.
A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007
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So imagine we have a certain kind of particle called a graviton -- that's the kind of debris we expect to be ejected out if the extra dimensions are real.
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So imagine we have a certain kind of particle called a graviton -- that's the kind of debris we expect to be ejected out if the extra dimensions are real.
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So imagine we have a certain kind of particle called a graviton -- that's the kind of debris we expect to be ejected out if the extra dimensions are real.
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This in effect corresponds to a giant graviton, which is required to "punch" a temporal hole to allow us to travel from the here-and-now to the if-and-when.
Damn Interesting Alan Bellows 2010
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In physics, the "graviton" is a hypothetical elementary particle that mediates the force of gravity in the framework of quantum field theory.
American Chronicle 2009
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In physics, the "graviton" is a hypothetical elementary particle that mediates the force of gravity in the framework of quantum field theory.
American Chronicle 2009
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