| Gravity -
07-10-2005, 07:18 AM
This is my first post. Hello everyone,
Perceptibly gravitation continues to bewilder our senses. Something seems to be amiss.
Richard P. Feynman, certainly one of the most prominent characters in the history of 20th century science, tells us with due reason that “All we have done is to describe how the earth moves around the sun, but we have not said what makes it go. Newton made no hypotheses about this: he was satisfied to find what it did without getting into the machinery of it. No one has since given any machinery.” We use mathematics to describe nature without knowing what mechanism is operating, though many have been suggested. Feynman continues, “No machinery has ever been invented that “explains” gravity without also predicting some other phenomenon that does not exist.”(1994 pp. 107-109)
The cosmological constant (lambda) too seems to bewilder the senses.
I believe that the solution to the problem of gravity has to do precisely with lambda.
Traditionally, the cosmological constant has almost exclusively been regarded and treated as a repulsive force (or pressure) that counteracts the attractive force of Newtonian gravitation, where lambda is in a sense the opposite of gravity. However, closer examination of the problem reveals that this concept cannot be accepted.
Coldcreation |