The Graviton: The Quantum Particle That Makes The World Round / Il gravitone: la particella quantistica che rende il mondo rotondo
The Graviton: The Quantum Particle That Makes The World Round / Il gravitone: la particella quantistica che rende il mondo rotondo Segnalato dal Dott. Giuseppe Cotellessa / Reported by Dr. Giuseppe Cotellessa In the great classroom of physics — otherwise known as the universe — gravity doesn’t work or play well with the three other fundamental forces of nature: electromagnetism, the weak force and the strong force. These three forces are enormously powerful but operate mainly over short distances. Most important to physicists, all three can be neatly explained by the theory of quantum mechanics. Gravity is different. Physicists can’t quite wrap their heads around the graviton, the quantum particle of gravity that’s almost impossible to detect. Needless to say, all of this makes gravity — and the search for the graviton — a core challenge of contemporary physics. The Odd Force Out On the one hand, compared to the other fundamental forces of nature, gr