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To: LibWhacker

I don’t think gravity is quantifiable in the material sense. Being (assumed) a function of space-time itself would necessarily preclude it from combining with the corresponding matter based theories. I don’t expect the discovery of gravitons in my lifetime. Just a hunch.


19 posted on 08/09/2009 6:50:35 PM PDT by allmost
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To: allmost
The search for "gravity waves" has produced zip, though none but the brave have dared but gently mention the possibility they've reached their resolution limit. None have suggested the break needed from Einstein that Einstein provided from Newton.

But these guys interest me. They are all about thinking outside the box, and the academic box is as stubbornly orthodox and self-protective as the Communist Party USA.

Great site, too. Great thought experiments, based on better data, like a four minute separation in the arrival of cosmic rays of different energies from a galactic flare at extra-galactic scale distance.

I wonder if it's occurred to anyone that gravity, unlike electro-magnetism, propagates instantly; that it is an echo of super-position left over from the earliest states of energy. That would rock the conference, wouldn't it?

23 posted on 08/09/2009 7:46:54 PM PDT by Prospero (non est ad astra mollis e terris via)
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To: allmost
"I don’t expect the discovery of gravitons in my lifetime."


24 posted on 08/09/2009 7:53:20 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (These fragments I have shored against my ruins)
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