What Do Gravitons Do?

The graviton is a hypothetical elementary particle that mediates the force of gravitation in the framework of quantum field theory. If it exists, the graviton is expected to be massless and must be a spin-2 boson.

Why do we need gravitons?

In the case of gravity, those particles are known as 'gravitons'. Most theorists believe that gravitons must exist, because quantum theory has successfully explained every other force of nature. ... Quantum theory predicts that as gravity has an effectively infinite range, the graviton must have an incredibly low mass.

What would a graviton do?

In theories of quantum gravity, the graviton is the hypothetical quantum of gravity, an elementary particle that mediates the force of gravitational interaction. ... If it exists, the graviton is expected to be massless because the gravitational force has a very long range, and appears to propagate at the speed of light.

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