RedAlert Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 What is a graviton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obnoxious Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 The supposed mediater of gravity, although its existence has yet to be confirmed, it is highly speculated to exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedAlert Posted April 22, 2005 Author Share Posted April 22, 2005 A supposed mediator of gravity? Explain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obnoxious Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 Well, it's like what the gluon is to the strong force, photon is to the electromagnetic force, the weak gauge bosons to the weak, gravitons is to gravity. They mediate the force in the sense they control it, the more of them, the stronger the force. It's just that our physicists have yet to truly confirm one's existence with hardcore evidence. All we have now is softcore temptations and naughty insinuations of the graviton's existence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedAlert Posted April 22, 2005 Author Share Posted April 22, 2005 Oh I see. Still very interesting. WHAT IF IT'S TRUE?! Imagine the possiblilities........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obnoxious Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 Oh my! Behave yourself there naughty boy! I know how you feel, I wanna be there when we finally unclothe her, I want to see her, to feel her essence, to understand her nature...ohh yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bascule Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 A massless spin 2 particle, or in string theory a certain species of closed string which is not bound to our D-p-brane and can freely move in other dimensions, making it virtually impossible to detect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 Oh I see. Still very interesting. WHAT IF IT'S TRUE?! We'd understand gravity a lot lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaara Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 on the topic of gravity. is there a way to make a room in a house have a more stronger gravity force then the adjacent rooms. (just in a standard house for example) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 on the topic of gravity. is there a way to make a room in a house have a more stronger gravity force then the adjacent rooms. (just in a standard house for example) Yes. Put a lot of mass underneath it. The gravity will drop off with r2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 Although you really wouldn't notice the difference without A LOT of mass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaara Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 i meant to imply that the gravity induced in the one room wouldnt affect the other rooms. e.g 20ms^-1 in the one room and the rest 9.8. if gravitrons where real could we set something like this up by manipulating there presence and lack there of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 It is very hard to detect the graviton because it is sooo weak. Gravity on a whole is thee weakest force, but a single graviton would be almost undetectable even if we knew how to 'see' it because its soo weak. It's like looking for atoms with the bare eye (although many scientists really hope that soon we will see them). Additionally it has a rest mass of 0 so this further complicates it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janus Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 A graviton would be a quantum of gravitational raditation, in the same way that a photon is a quantum of electromagnetic radiation. And just like the virtual photon is the mediator for the electromagnetic force, it is the virtual graviton that would mediate gravity. This is assuming that gravity can be quantisized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedAlert Posted April 23, 2005 Author Share Posted April 23, 2005 We'd understand gravity a lot lot better. Yup, and we could have flying cars, effortless space travel, etc, etc...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedAlert Posted April 23, 2005 Author Share Posted April 23, 2005 Oh my! Behave yourself there naughty boy! I know how you feel' date=' I wanna be there when we finally unclothe her, I want to see her, to feel her essence, to understand her nature...ohh yes [/quote'] Oh my! Do you always imagine in that way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 on the topic of gravity. is there a way to make a room in a house have a more stronger gravity force then the adjacent rooms. (just in a standard house for example) make that room lower than the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 Yup, and we could have flying cars, effortless space travel, etc, etc...... Not necesarily (sp?) but if it [anti-grav] was possible it'd put us not only on that path but a long way down it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatlack Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 How can gravitons explain gravity? What makes a particle pull something?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 make that room lower than the rest. Not entirely correct. If by making the room lower you are removing mass from below it then you will reduce gravity, although by getting lower you are increasing the mass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 How can gravitons explain gravity? We could study how and why it interacts, allowing us to possibly control or counteract that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now