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- From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Lieutenant Ripley at The Institute for Telling Lice)
- Subject: Re: gravitons
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.090335.7422@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:03:35 GMT
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- DTC3@psuvm.psu.edu () writes:
- :
- : In any event, a prime assertion of General Relativity is that gravity
- : is *not a force*, but a characteristic of the geometry of spacetime;
- : it seems, then, that the notion of a force propagator (the graviton)
- : moving about in spacetime is not consistent with this assertion. And
- : as there are no direct experimental data regarding the behavior of
- : gravity at the quantum level, can the existence of a neutral, massless,
- : spin-2 graviton be justified on symmetry grounds alone?
- :
- : Any thoughts?
- :
- Gravitons are the particles emitted by the brain of a particle theorist
- when he thinks that gravity is just another field in Minkowski space.
-