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- noun Plural form of
graviton .
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Title: Kaluza-Klein gravitons are negative energy dust in brane cosmology
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Title: Kaluza-Klein gravitons are negative energy dust in brane cosmology
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Thus, electric fields were bal - anced by electrons, light waves by photons, sound waves by phonons, and even gravitational fields were balanced by would-be duals which are hopefully called gravitons; conversely, and most importantly, all ele - mentary particles of matter were balanced by undula - tory counterparts, the so-called de Broglie waves.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968
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For Gravitational Forces, the exchange particles are called gravitons but these haven't been observed yet.
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I'm not sure about the current status of "gravitons" as a mediating particle, or whether general relativity makes particles superfluous for this force.
How big is that molecule in the window EliRabett 2010
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Many things predicted by the theory of relativity, such as gravitons, have never been found despite much searching for them.
Conservapedia Sean 2007
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In modern thought, EM waves are identified with photons just as "gravitons" are identified with the waves that presumably propagate through gravitational fields when masses accelerate.
I would like to know. Angry Professor 2006
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Many things predicted by the theory of relativity, such as gravitons, have never been found despite much searching for them.
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Many things predicted by the theory of relativity, such as gravitons, have never been found despite much searching for them.
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Many things predicted by the theory of relativity, such as gravitons, have never been found despite much searching for them.
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