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Timeline for Comparing force-carrying particles

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Aug 27 at 5:00 comment added safesphere @Neutralino You need the opposite charges for dipole (spin-1) interactions. In gravity only one attractive charge exists, so only quadrupole (spin-2) interactions are possible.
Aug 26 at 11:15 history reopened John Rennie general-relativity
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My question is not about the technicalities about how spin of the graviton comes as 2, rather I want an understanding of different spins of the different force-carrying mediators. Added to review
Aug 26 at 5:11 history closed John Rennie general-relativity Duplicate of How can I read off the fact that gravity is associated with spin-2 particles from the Einstein-Hilbert action?
Aug 26 at 4:28 history became hot network question
Aug 25 at 22:09 answer added LolloBoldo timeline score: 3
Aug 25 at 20:55 answer added Andrew timeline score: 5
Aug 25 at 20:48 comment added Gold Well, the source of the gravitational field is the stress energy tensor (which is a spin two object) instead of a Lie algebra valued current (which is a spin one object).
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