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n. - A hypothetical particle with zero charge and rest mass that is held to be the quantum of the force field.

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  • Title: Kaluza-Klein gravitons are negative energy dust in brane cosmology
  • For Gravitational Forces, the exchange particles are called gravitons but these haven't been observed yet.
  • Many things predicted by the theory of relativity, such as gravitons, have never been found despite much searching for them.
  • "gravitons" or the "metric tensor" are composite fields in the bulk of spacetime (that is however non-emergent).
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