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graviton

In physics, the gauge boson that is the postulated carrier of the gravitational force.



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To make matters worse, proponents of gravity theory hypothesize about mysterious things called gravitons and gravity waves.
When gravitons, the particles that mediate gravitation attraction, escape the local brane, the gravitational force that remains within the brane diminishes.
Since photons and gravitons belong to these elementary particles, light and other electromagnetic waves as well as gravity must be counted to such basic information media.
 
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