graviton
noun
grav·i·ton ˈgra-və-ˌtän 
: a hypothetical particle with zero charge and rest mass that is held to be the quantum of the gravitational field
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web As a 2006 study demonstrated, a Jupiter-mass planet in tight orbit around a neutron star would interact with approximately one graviton per decade, which is collisionless enough to fit the bill to describe dark matter. 
Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021 In the 1930s, Wolfgang Pauli and Markus Fierz proposed a graviton with mass. Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020 Two groups of scientists may have finally solved that problem, by proposing an experiment to determine if the graviton exists without ever observing it directly. Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2018 The elusive graviton has been the subject of debate in theoretical physics for almost 100 years. Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2020 On the plus side, researchers realized that a certain vibration mode of the string fit the profile of a graviton, the coveted quantum purveyor of gravity. Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2015 During this trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, quantum mechanical fluctuations in space-time generated gravitons, gravitational ripples in space-time. Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2014 And on that stormy night in Aspen in 1984, Green and Schwarz discovered that the graviton contributed a term to the equations that, for a particular version of string theory, exactly canceled out the problematic anomaly. Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2015 That inclusion would imply that the graviton has a supersymmetric partner called the gravitino, which the theory predicts to (uniquely) have a spin of 3/2. Philip Ball, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019 See More
Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021 In the 1930s, Wolfgang Pauli and Markus Fierz proposed a graviton with mass. Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020 Two groups of scientists may have finally solved that problem, by proposing an experiment to determine if the graviton exists without ever observing it directly. Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2018 The elusive graviton has been the subject of debate in theoretical physics for almost 100 years. Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2020 On the plus side, researchers realized that a certain vibration mode of the string fit the profile of a graviton, the coveted quantum purveyor of gravity. Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2015 During this trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, quantum mechanical fluctuations in space-time generated gravitons, gravitational ripples in space-time. Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2014 And on that stormy night in Aspen in 1984, Green and Schwarz discovered that the graviton contributed a term to the equations that, for a particular version of string theory, exactly canceled out the problematic anomaly. Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2015 That inclusion would imply that the graviton has a supersymmetric partner called the gravitino, which the theory predicts to (uniquely) have a spin of 3/2. Philip Ball, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019 See More Word History
Etymology
International Scientific Vocabulary gravity + -on entry 2
First Known Use
1942, in the meaning defined above