graviton
Meanings
noun
- A hypothetical gauge boson that regulates the gravitational force. It would have a spin of 2 and zero rest mass.
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Etymology
From gravity + -on. Coined by Russian physicists Dmitrii Blokhintsev and F. M. Gal'perin in 1934, and reintroduced by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1959 in a lecture to the American Physical Society.
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