Graviton – Particle with Gravity.

Ever wonder how particles are forced towards gravity? 🙂

It’s called Graviton!

The graviton is a hypothetical elementary particle that mediates the force of gravitation in the framework of quantum field theory.

Gravity is a force. For all other forces that we are aware of (electromagnetic force, weak decay force, strong nuclear force) we have identified particles that transmit the forces at a quantum level. In quantum theory, each particle acts both as a particle AND a wave. This is called duality. So if there is a graviton, we expect it to behave both as particle and as a wave as well.

The electromagnetic force, for example, is transmitted by photons, and light is nothing but a large number of photons. Photons/light show wave and particle properties. Scientists expect that gravity functions in a similar way. However, physicists haven’t yet observed a gravitational force carrier at the quantum level, and chances are they won’t do any time soon. It takes very sophisticated experiments – much more sensitive and with much better resolution than we can build so far – to detect such a phenomenon. Nevertheless, scientists expect that a force-transmitting particle – the graviton – exists. (Source: 

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/science/inquiring/questions/graviton.html)

Therefore, using the processing and the sliders, we are going to play with this Graviton!