| looking in the wrong place.. -
01-15-2006, 10:51 AM
I personally don't think that results obtained from that experiment could ever prove conclusive because of the scale that they are analyzing and the extremely weak interactions that they are attempting to perceive. If a large flatbed truck carrying a part from the massive dynamo from a power plant project rolled by I suspect that they might observe the effects caused by that experience in their experiment and they might misinterpret the results. For that matter, the earthquake that caused the great Tsunami affected the gravitational pull of the earth ever so slightly, but it was also measurable, so seismic events would also affect observation.
In my opinion, the researchers are looking for gravity in the wrong place to begin with so that the proofs that they think they are getting would not reflect actuallity. They are working on the premise that gravitons exist as part of the structure of matter, whereas I think that gravitons exist as the structure of space, a very different theory altogether.
The example given in the article to demonstrate the weak force of gravity wherein the paper clip is picked up by a small magnet is just indicative of the small amount of space displaced by the paper clip compared to that of the dense mass of the small magnet, so the magnetic attraction of the magnet easily exceeds the gravitational attraction of the paper clip by many factors, and it might actually work in combination with its gravitational force in a form of constructive reinforcement. "There is nothing permanent except change" |