The Hypothesis is that the Graviton could be the force carrier for gravity. But with the knowledge of Einsteins theory of relativity which states that Gravity is NOT a Force, wouldn’t the Graviton disprove Relativity or at least some aspects of it?
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For over 100 years now there have been two fundamentally different theories of physics, quantum and GR. No one likes this, it would just be nicer if there was one. THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!
The problem is not that they are different, but that they are *fundamentally* different. Like so utterly different that it’s hard to imagine how they could be put together.
Instead, people have been trying to use one model to build a theory that explains the other.
There have been any number of attempts to “dimensionize quantum”, that is, try to explain quantum like physics using a GR like theory. This generally failed to progress as QM got more complex with things like isospin and color charges and such. You ended up needing a whole lot of dimensions and the theories invariably collapse under the weight.
There have been even more attempts to quantize gravity. In QM force-like things happen when bosons are exchanged between particles. So gravity is force like, so we have to have some sort of boson, so let’s call it the graviton. No one has been able to make these theories work either. It’s not the only way to quantize gravity but it is one of the most direct and so it saw lots of attention.
There’s lots of others that aren’t one or the other or even a blend of them, but they tend to do even worse.
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