General Relativity Question

Hi peeps, theres something that has been bugging me for a while now & i was hoping you could help me out please..ive read that gravity is not a force but the bending/wraping of space/time by heavy bodies such as the sun ect... I understand this clearly.ive also read that physicist's who study quantum mechanics are looking for a force carryer for gravity called the" Graviton". But what i dont understand is that if gravity is the warping of space\time and not a force, why are we looking for a particle that carrys a gravitational force, it confuses meI hope this makes sense, i think it does... Thanks 4 your time

i have tried looking on the web before about fields & the gravity field, but i hav'nt come across anything that explains it in laymens term's.
You say that the Gravity field wraps spacetime, i dont understand that , what is a gravity field, also i dont really understand what fields are in genral tbh.should i start a new thread...
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Thanks Son Goku for helping me out, if you could expain it to me that would be great,I think we should start a new thread...
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sorry i dont really understand what fields are, if you dont mind could you explain in laymans terms, what they are, Im keen to learn
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Thanks Iblis for your reply, i understand pretty much everything you wrote, thats what i was looking for, Im just a simple warehouse worker but find it amazine that things can be so small,
I find the quantum world amazine, it's really weird !
With your post im going to stick bits of it in google one at a time and try to learn more,
Nice 1 cheers

well cavediver, why dont you explain it to me then, In Laymens terms what are fields,and how do they work, i would like to understand what fields are , also at the quantum level are there really particles, Basically i would like to know what fundamental matter is made out of. is it just energy flying around doing random stuff on a small scale but on a bigger scale it looks nice a smooth and makes up a football for instance?? cheers

Thanks cavediver & Iblis those explanations help me out alot, i now understand what fields are or at least i understand how Gravity is a field through out the whole of space and when
you get mass curving it the values change because space is closer together.... Right ??
obviously thats the simple way of looking at it....I have been reading about particles recently and have another question:when we talk about atoms , electrons, quarks ect are they really tiny bits of matter
or energy with different charges giving them the value they have.... What is fundamentle matter made of..??Thanks for your timeThis message has been edited by Fabric, 01-31-2006 06:20 PM