Timeline for How do gravitons impact on general relativity?
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| Apr 2, 2020 at 22:15 | comment | added | user32023 | These description of the graviton completely fails, unless I'm missing something, to explain time dilation. How does a particle explain why time proceeds at a different pace at the bottom of a gravity well than it proceeds outside a gravity well? I know of no particle or field that can do that. | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 21:27 | comment | added | dingo_d | Well that was one of the things that kinda bothered me: GR is confirmed, and it's really elegant theory, so I couldn't see how one would fit gravitons into the picture. But I neglected the fact that dealing with gravitons I'd go into the quantum limit, and then it would be like with classical mechanics and quantum mechanics, right? Thanks for clarification :) | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 21:24 | vote | accept | dingo_d | ||
| Aug 27, 2013 at 20:36 | comment | added | user4552 | @dingo_d: Since general relativity has already been confirmed by lots of experiments, any new theory would have to be equivalent to GR in the appropriate limit. Any theory of quantum gravity has to be equivalent to GR for energies that are small compared to the Planck energy. | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 19:52 | comment | added | Zo the Relativist | @dingo_d: it would obviously depend on the theory. | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 19:21 | comment | added | dingo_d | But would that completely changed the Einstein view of gravity? Would the Einsteins equation still hold in their current form? | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 19:19 | history | answered | user4552 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |