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Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by dbranes on Thursday February 11, 2016 @03:48PM (#11083115)
Gravitational waves are a prediction of classical linearlized gravity - gravitational waves are to (classical) gravitons what light waves are to photons.
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Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by smegel on Thursday February 11, 2016 @07:46PM (#11084571)
But we have direct experimental confirmation of light behaving light both a wave and as a particle. Do we have any such evidence to show gravity exhibiting particle like behavior?
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Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by sjburt on Thursday February 11, 2016 @10:05PM (#11085034)
No, but we predict it to be essentially impossible to observe a graviton. http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0601043
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