How to Use graviton in a Sentence

graviton

noun
  • Join a string’s ends, forming a loop, to do the same for gravitons.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
  • That kick is a single graviton.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Jan. 2026
  • In these theories, the graviton has a very small but nonzero mass.
    — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 6 May 2018
  • Quantum gravity in Flatland is a theory not of gravitons but of shape-shifting tori.
    — Steven Carlip, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2015
  • Above all, a particular oscillation of the string could be interpreted as a graviton.
    — Lorenzo Bianchi, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2018
  • In the 1930s, Wolfgang Pauli and Markus Fierz proposed a graviton with mass.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The simplest explanation of a positive result would be the existence of gravitons.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The elusive graviton has been the subject of debate in theoretical physics for almost 100 years.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Gravitational waves and their quantum counterparts, gravitons, simply cannot be squeezed into just two dimensions of space.
    — Steven Carlip, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2015
  • The neutron-star merger puts tough limits on these theories, Zumalacárregui said, since a massive graviton would travel more slowly than light.
    — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 6 May 2018
  • But does the graviton — the hypothetical carrier of the gravitational force — exist in the same way?
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • If gravitons were created in the LHC, which some theories suggest is possible, then signs of such leakage could be sought.
    — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
  • On the plus side, researchers realized that a certain vibration mode of the string fit the profile of a graviton, the coveted quantum purveyor of gravity.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2015
  • But gravitons with a sufficient kick velocity can escape this gravitational grip.
    — Steve Nadis, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Scientists theorize that one such frequency should map to the theoretical graviton.
    — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The emptiness of the vacuum in quantum theory belies a sea of particles—photons, electrons, gravitons, and more—that conspire to make empty space feel empty.
    — Ahmed Almheiri, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Essentially, this analysis shows that photons and gravitons travel on nearly identical metrics.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2017
  • But when trying to calculate how these gravitons interact, nonsensical infinities appear.
    — Lorenzo Bianchi, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The deepest rumblings of the strings would produce gravitons, hypothetical particles believed to form the gravitational fabric of space-time.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Perhaps individual gravitons don’t exist in the same concrete way individual photons do.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • That inclusion would imply that the graviton has a supersymmetric partner called the gravitino, which the theory predicts to (uniquely) have a spin of 3/2.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
  • One of the vibrational states of the string corresponds to the graviton, the quantum-mechanical particle carrying the gravitational force.
    — Alexander Hellemans, Scientific American, 24 May 2018
  • Two groups of scientists may have finally solved that problem, by proposing an experiment to determine if the graviton exists without ever observing it directly.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2018
  • But due to the extreme weakness of gravity, physicists expect graviton scattering to occur 39 orders of magnitude more rarely than photon scattering.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • When Tony and Rhodey simultaneously exert a larger upward force, the emission rate of gravitons increases, to again neutralize their efforts.
    — James Kakalios, WIRED, 12 Nov. 2014
  • In this theory, vibrating strings would create gravitons, tiny particles that act under quantum mechanical laws but carry gravitational force.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The path to detecting gravitons lies in merging gravitational wave astronomy with quantum engineering.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Jan. 2026
  • However, trying to incorporate a graviton into the picture with existing math has led scientists into a tangle of impossible math, such as equations ending in infinities.
    — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2023
  • This happens because gravitons (the hypothetical particles that carry the gravitational force) leak into those dimensions.
    — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Lacking gravitational waves or gravitons, Flatland gravity should also lack the gravitational degrees of freedom that would explain black hole temperature.
    — Steven Carlip, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2015

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