Posted on 09/23/2002 11:11:32 AM PDT by VadeRetro
Exclusive from New Scientist
Hidden extra dimensions are causing measurements of the strength of gravity at different locations on Earth to be affected by the planet's magnetic field, French researchers say.
This is a controversial claim because no one has ever provided experimental evidence to support either the existence of extra dimensions or any interaction between gravity and electromagnetism. But lab measurements of Newton's gravitational constant G suggest that both are real.
Newton's constant, which describes the strength of the gravitational pull that bodies exert on each other, is the most poorly determined of the constants of nature. The two most accurate measurements have experimental errors of 1 part in 10,000, yet their values differ by 10 times that amount. So physicists are left with no idea of its absolute value.
Now Jean-Paul Mbelek and Marc Lachieze-Ray of the French Atomic Energy Commission near Paris say they can resolve the contradiction by taking into account the location of the labs where the experiments were carried out.
The pair suggest that electromagnetism and gravity influence one another enough for gravity's pull to be noticeably affected by the Earth's magnetic field.
Their work is based on theories such as string theory that try to unify all the forces, including electromagnetism and gravity, by invoking the existence of several extra spatial dimensions.
In a paper submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity and presented at a meeting of the European Astronomical Society in Porto, Portugal, the researchers calculated the values they would expect G to have at different locations around the world. They say it should be greater where the Earth's magnetic field is stronger, with the highest measurements at the north and south magnetic poles.
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I was hoping no one would catch me on that! (Grumble!)
No. I missed a pop fly. Good one.
A Debka subsidiary, no doubt.
--Boot Hill
No, threads get pulled because you and your fellow Evo Taliban turn them into a barrage of slimes, insults and character assassination. You are starting with the insults already for no reason at all. Don't blame others for your despicable actions.
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Increased Gravity is the cure, VR.
The creo version of "the High Road."
You execrable piece of lying garbage . . .-- gore3000
Yup Vade, the above was a mild rebuke compared to the lies, distortions, and vile attacks made by you and your fellow evolutionists. You folk seem to think that you can lie, insult, demean and slime opponents without anyone pointing out your nefarious tactics.
The evolution threads were very peaceful until your troublemaking friend came back. Since that time the two threads in which he was involved in turned into a barrage of gratuitous insults at opponents. I don't believe in coincidences and neither should any rational human being.
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