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GraviQuarkTons & Other Elusive Beasties. -
09-30-2007, 08:05 PM
About every six months or so the world press and scientific journals at large will report on contradictions and disqualifications of Einstein's theories. Modifications of the works of Newton and Einstein, for example, do correctly occur. Whereas, until the foundations of physical science represented by Newton and Einstein, for example, are replaced with some more improved system, the displacement of the work of the issued giants of science is confined to whatever slight adjustment, accompanied by whatever hype dissertation.
Then, there are the expeditions of physicists attempting to discover, isolate or insulate gravity waves (Refer 'gravitons'). And yet, like the 4th Dimension, the only appropriate question regarding phenomenological gravity, is, 'Where is it not?'.
Yet still, Contemporary Physics and its mentors continue to brush aside electromagnetism (in the micro and macrocosms) in - high and low, large and small - probes, hunts, expeditions and searches for gravity waves (Where are they not? The bespectacled adventurers are wearing the corrective lenses they're frantically looking for).
Word Salad follows: "Although relativity theory replaces gravity by a geometrical warping of space-time, it leaves many basic questions unanswered. Does this warping take place instantaneously through space or does it propagate like a wave motion? Almost all physicists agree that the warping moves like a wave and that these waves travel with the speed of light. There is also good reason (sic) to believe that gravity waves consist of tiny indivisible particles of energy called "gravitons." In 1969, Joseph Weber, at the University of Maryland, announced that his equipment, consisting of huge aluminum cylinders, had detected gravity radiation. It seemed to be coming from cataclysmic events at the center of the Milky Way. Since then, dozens of attempts have been made to confirm Weber's claim, some by physicists with detecting equipment more sensitive than Weber's. The results have been negative. The present consensus is that Weber misinterpreted his readings, and that gravity waves have not yet been observed. (Have not yet been proven).
“As for gravitons, no one has any knowledge of what a graviton is like, although many physicists are trying to invent theories that will predict some of its properties. Presumably it contains a tiny bit of space-time curvature, otherwise large numbers of gravitons would be unable to transmit curvature through space. At the moment the graviton, like the particle physicists' quark,' remains a hypothetical beast that physicists hope someday to capture." - p. 106, THE RELATIVITY EXPLOSION, by Martin Gardner
(George Berkeley, 1710) ... lay the beginning in a distinct explication of what is meant by thing, reality, existence: for in vain shall we dispute concerning the real existence of things, or pretend to any knowledge thereof, so long as we have not fixed the meaning of those words.
"All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus "Reality is an illusion - albeit a persistent one." - Einstein "Particles give me a headache." - Ibid