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Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe

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Re: Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe

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Gravitons always struck me as a goofy half-baked concoction (even though we've supposedly observed them now), and so did dark matter. Emergent gravity theories are very interesting.

Observing gravitational waves is not really the same as observing individual gravitons. It's unlikely we can observe gravitons with any equipment we can actually build.

Re: Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe

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Gravitons always struck me as a goofy half-baked concoction (even though we've supposedly observed them now), and so did dark matter. Emergent gravity theories are very interesting.

> even though we've supposedly observed [gravitons] now

Source? Or are you saying that the existence of gravitational waves constitute a proof of the existence of gravitons, due to wave/particle duality?

I'm not a physicist, but all I thought we had detected were gravitational waves.

Re: Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe

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post #6

Gravitons always struck me as a goofy half-baked concoction (even though we've supposedly observed them now), and so did dark matter. Emergent gravity theories are very interesting.

> even though we've supposedly observed [gravitons] now Source? Or are you saying that the existence of gravitational waves constitute a proof of the existence of gravitons, due to wave/particle duality? I'm not a physicist, but all I thought we had detected were gravitational waves.

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