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Ah. Yes, I was aware that there is a faith-based initiative program out there for a particle called the graviton. The memo I would have missed would have been the one where they said they found a shred of evidence for it.

"Although the graviton has not yet been observed, it is thought that there is an exchange particle associated with gravity and that eventually gravity will be described in a unified theory with the other three forces of nature".

Who says scientists don't have religion? ;)

Personally, I don't think there is such a thing as a graviton. Then again, I'm a heretic in several other ways as well.

Qwinn

P.S. Sorry if that came off rude, I didn't mean to be. I think it's very cool that you posted all this stuff up. I was actually excited when I read that, as I thought I might have missed something (heck, discovering a graviton would be cool, it would make antigravity theoretically easier to implement).

Personally, I think gravity is caused by mass curving space-time. Yes, I realize that would probably involve thinking of "space-time" as having intrinsic properties outside of the perspective of matter or energy. I don't know how much people would accept that these days, but from my reading I never thought that the totally relativistic model of space-time was ever established. Indeed, gravity may be the -only- way to measure that existence. *shrug*

I'm just a layman, not a professional. But I've always been a hard sci-fi fan. Larry Niven was always one of my favorites. I don't have that much formal education in the hard sciences, but I've spent a whole lot of my time theorizing and dreaming about it, and have independently arrived at several conclusions that I later found out had been borne out by the facts, so I'll stick with my gut instincts for now :)

Qwinn