Numbers are fundamental to mathematics, sounds are fundamental to language, bits are fundamental to information processing, atoms are fundamental to ordinary mass, and cells are fundamental to living things. In general we know about our world by building with simple “fundamentals” to get our complex reality. Historically we have thought of Space-Time as a void (nothing) within which the stars exist and where we live our lives. This changed about 100 years ago when Einstein argued successfully that Space-Time had the property of being curved. All of a sudden Space-Time became a thing that had properties. This essay will focus on an aspect of light (electromagnetic radiation) and show that it has a fundamental aspect that can be interpreted as a quantum mechanical particle having mass. It will be argued that accumulations of this fundamental precursor of the photon on a large scale creates Space-Time with its curvature (aka gravity). This quantum mechanical particle will be called a graviton.
Don Limuti