Thanks Civ. An oldie but a goodie. This and the link to the other thread dovetails with the question I've been looking into lately; that is, can our(or any) magnetic field influence what we've been taught about gravity? Does mass alone determine the strength of a gravitional field??? Or maybe Newton was just flat wrong?
Wendy, you either appear to have some expertise or have studied in this area. Care to educate a layman on this question?
Albert Einstein described gravity as a sort of a four dimensional differential gravity kind of thing, basically a property of mass and space.
At least three huge problems have turned up with that claim, any one of which should be enough to sink it:
- The experiments of Eugene Podkletnov and repeated by the ESA in 06 show an ability of spinning superconductors to cloak/shield gravity. Einstein's claims about gravity would not allow that to be possible.
- Einstein's conception of gravity would not allow for the possibility of gravity having undergone any sort of a significant change in the recent geological past on our own planet; yet it is an easy demonstration that it has and that the super animals of past ages on our planet would not be able to function in our present gravity.
- There is a third problem involving gravity and Einstein's claim that information cannot be passed around faster than C. Gravity propagates instantaneously to within our ability to measure it. Every time you take five steps i.e. change your position in space, you are sending a gravitational message out into the cosmos and somebody on the far side of the galaxy with a sufficiently sensitive instrument could read it as it happened; it wouldn't take 50,000 years for the news to get there.