How to Use graviton in a Sentence

graviton

noun
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  • In the 1930s, Wolfgang Pauli and Markus Fierz proposed a graviton with mass.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • In these theories, the graviton has a very small but nonzero mass.
    — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 6 May 2018
  • For gravity, a particle called the graviton does the job.
    — Lorenzo Bianchi, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The elusive graviton has been the subject of debate in theoretical physics for almost 100 years.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2020
  • If gravitons were created in the LHC, which some theories suggest is possible, then signs of such leakage could be sought.
    — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Quantum gravity in Flatland is a theory not of gravitons but of shape-shifting tori.
    — Steven Carlip, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2015
  • But does the graviton — the hypothetical carrier of the gravitational force — exist in the same way?
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • On the plus side, researchers realized that a certain vibration mode of the string fit the profile of a graviton, the coveted quantum purveyor of gravity.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2015
  • The neutron-star merger puts tough limits on these theories, Zumalacárregui said, since a massive graviton would travel more slowly than light.
    — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 6 May 2018
  • That inclusion would imply that the graviton has a supersymmetric partner called the gravitino, which the theory predicts to (uniquely) have a spin of 3/2.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Above all, a particular oscillation of the string could be interpreted as a graviton.
    — Lorenzo Bianchi, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2018
  • One of the vibrational states of the string corresponds to the graviton, the quantum-mechanical particle carrying the gravitational force.
    — Alexander Hellemans, Scientific American, 24 May 2018
  • And on that stormy night in Aspen in 1984, Green and Schwarz discovered that the graviton contributed a term to the equations that, for a particular version of string theory, exactly canceled out the problematic anomaly.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2015
  • As a 2006 study demonstrated, a Jupiter-mass planet in tight orbit around a neutron star would interact with approximately one graviton per decade, which is collisionless enough to fit the bill to describe dark matter.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Gravitational waves and their quantum counterparts, gravitons, simply cannot be squeezed into just two dimensions of space.
    — Steven Carlip, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2015
  • When Tony and Rhodey simultaneously exert a larger upward force, the emission rate of gravitons increases, to again neutralize their efforts.
    — James Kakalios, WIRED, 12 Nov. 2014
  • Gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves are both carried by particles: the graviton and the photon.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Scientists theorize that one such frequency should map to the theoretical graviton.
    — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Two groups of scientists may have finally solved that problem, by proposing an experiment to determine if the graviton exists without ever observing it directly.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2018
  • During this trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, quantum mechanical fluctuations in space-time generated gravitons, gravitational ripples in space-time.
    — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2014
  • Essentially, this analysis shows that photons and gravitons travel on nearly identical metrics.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2017
  • However, trying to incorporate a graviton into the picture with existing math has led scientists into a tangle of impossible math, such as equations ending in infinities.
    — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Perhaps individual gravitons don’t exist in the same concrete way individual photons do.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • But when trying to calculate how these gravitons interact, nonsensical infinities appear.
    — Lorenzo Bianchi, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2018
  • In this theory, vibrating strings would create gravitons, tiny particles that act under quantum mechanical laws but carry gravitational force.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2023
  • This happens because gravitons (the hypothetical particles that carry the gravitational force) leak into those dimensions.
    — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Lacking gravitational waves or gravitons, Flatland gravity should also lack the gravitational degrees of freedom that would explain black hole temperature.
    — Steven Carlip, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2015
  • One longtime effort has tried reconciling relativity—which describes gravity as a consequence of curved spacetime—with quantum mechanics by ascribing gravity to fields of particles called gravitons.
    — National Geographic, 18 Feb. 2016
  • Supergravity includes gravitons — the gravitational equivalent of photons — and adds a supersymmetric partner, the gravitino.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 10 May 2023

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