Gravity's Missing Particle With Marcus Chown (490)

Shirtloads of Science by Karl Kruszelnicki

Sep 5, 202631:38Science & Medicine

Science writer and former astrophysicist Marcus Chown joins us to discuss the elusive graviton - the theoretical particle behind gravity. In this chat we dig into the four fundamental forces of nature, why gravity is so...

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