Gravity has been operating continuously, without maintenance, since approximately 13.8 billion years ago — and it still hasn't confirmed its own carrier particle.

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Every other fundamental force has one, but the graviton, the particle that ought to be riding gravity's Nobel Prize-winning waves, remains the most wanted and most elusive entry in the whole of fundamental physics. In this episode, we trace the chain of discovery from a seventeenth-century pendulum clock to a Louisiana laser detector to laboratories cooling beryllium to the edge of absolute zero, and ask the question nobody has yet been able to answer: how do you catch a graviton — and what happens to physics if you do?

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