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Originally Posted by Ken G
No, it must not be gravitational radiation, it is electromagnetic radiation. And no, it's not a graviton, it's a photon. You have the quantum numbers wrong. If any particle with mass-energy was a graviton, then all particles would be gravitons. They're not.
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I worry about the quantum numbers too however if gravitons are emited from the atom at the same time when a photon is (when the atom loses its h*nu energy) with is the same as its loss of gravitational energy) then at least there is a strong suspicion that it is the same particle. And so the same kind of radiation, namely electromagnetic. Since otherwise where do you see the difference between the two? There must be such places if those two radiations are different.