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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
I'm about to go to bed so I'm not replying in depth yet, but I just want to ask you a question.
According to the Standard Model, I believe. Do you believe the graviton exists? GR tells us gravity is merely (lol) warped spacetime. That is, it's not a "thing" like a photon. It's an illusion, like the g-force you get when you accelerate (which I always thought should be called the i-force for inertia, but I digress). Does the g-force have a particle? That sounds ridiculous. So why would gravity? I've never been comfortable with the idea of a graviton.
I'll read your post properly tomorrow after work.
No, my gut says there wont be a graviton, but there is room in the Standard Model to account for such a particle.
It's hard as a scientist to say something doesn't exist. Just because it hasn't been observed, yet, it could just be that we're bad at observing some things. We've only been able to observe gravitational waves for a few years, now. Maybe if we knew exactly how to look for particle nature in those waves, we may elucidate something.
Like, could we find a way to perform Young's Single- or Double-Slit experiment on ripples in spacetime? What could we conceivably use as a boundary?
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