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  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    If gravity is a particle, and that’s a big “if”, then the inescapable attractive force of a black hole would be the result of that particle’s action, so what exactly would it be escaping? Itself?

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    What kind of shower do you have that allows you to conduct observations in space? Not to mention write up a paper on it.

  • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago
    1. We have no conclusive evidence to suggest that gravity is propagated by particles. Currently, we think that it very likely might be, but we have not come up with models to quantize gravity. U would win a Nobel prize if u did that.
    2. Watch this
  • Karu 🐲@lemmy.ml
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    As far as I know (I’m not a physicist), it’s not all that clear that gravity is caused by a particle. It makes sense to assume it is, because of parallelisms with the other fundamental interactions, all of which (other than gravity) are caused by particles that have been thoroughly observed and studied.

    So we kinda know what a graviton would be like and what to look for, but so far it hasn’t been found, and its existence hasn’t been conclusively determined. There are some alternative hypotheses that in fact gravitons don’t exist at all, and gravity is just a consequence of the shape of space-time, which I think is what’s going on with black holes.

    (source: trust me bro I saw it on the Internet)

  • dan1101@lemm.ee
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    I thought the current thinking is that gravity is bending and differences of spacetime?

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    Maybe gravitons aren’t affected by gravity, the same way photons aren’t affected by em interactions (which they carry).