What Happens if We Catch a Graviton? (It Changes Everything)
from The Multiverse Employee Handbook Hosted by Robb Corrigan
Gravity has been operating continuously, without maintenance, since approximately 13.8 billion years ago — and it still hasn't confirmed its own carrier particle. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Every other fundamental force has one, but the graviton, the particle that ought to be riding gravity's Nobel Prize-winning waves, remains the most wanted and most elusive entry in the whole of fundamental physics. In this episode, we trace the chain of discovery from a seventeenth-century pendulum clock to a Louisiana laser detector to laboratories cooling beryllium to the edge of absolute zero, and ask the question nobody has yet been able to answer: how do you catch a graviton — and what happens to physics if you do? Sign up to our mailing list (bottom of this page): https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/about/listen/ AI Transparency: In a universe increasingly filled with AI-generated content, we believe in being clear about what’s human and what’s not. Your time is valuable, and you deserve to know what you’re experiencing. The narrator, David, is a professional voice actor who has digitized his voice using ElevenLabs’ voice-cloning technology and is fairly compensated for his vocal performance. Thumbnails are created using OpenArt, and music and sound effects come from Pixabay. Everything else—the research, the writing, jokes, sound editing, and interdimensional coffee consumption—is 100% human-made by a human. https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com
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