Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R...
by egwor on Thursday February 11, 2016 @05:32PM
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There always seem to be pairs (as in yin and yang), so could something like anti-gravitons exist too?
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Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R...
by raattgift on Saturday February 13, 2016 @05:13AM
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Sure, and in several theories of gravitation where there are gravitons as an uncharged massless spin-2 gauge boson (General Relativity isn't one of these; it doesn't have any gravitons at all, although the non-quantized classical gravitational waves have spin-2 symmetry) then gravitons are their own anti-particles, just as photons (uncharged massless spin-1 gauge bosons) are their own anti-particles in the Standard Model.
(i.e., anti-gravitons and gravitons are the same thing, just as anti-photons and photons are the same thing).
There are a variety of other theories of gravitation with gravitons, but as far as I know, there are none in which gravitons are not their own antiparticles. (There may be such theories available in universes with a very different cosmological constant or with different numbers of dimensions than the one we are in).
Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R...
by kordless on Friday February 12, 2016 @11:54PM
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I love groups who, while considering something as crazy as time turning into a physical direction as it does in a black hole, can still manage voting down someone down thinking outside the box.
I like the idea of anti-gravitons being the inside of a graviton, or inside of a black hole. Given the inside of a black hole is essentially the end of time, coming out of a black hole or coming out of an anti-graviton, could equal going back to the beginning of time.