Gravity eases its pull
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since Galileo first dropped his balls off the top of the Tower of Pisa in the late 16th century, gravity has caused a major headache for mathematicians and physicists down the ages.
Throwing theorists' equations into chaos, it has proved a major stumbling block to the creation of a single 'theory of everything'.
But a new analysis by Dr David Toms, a theoretical physicist at Newcastle University, now shows that gravity may at least make some fundamental calculations more manageable.
He has found that gravity seems to calm the electromagnetic force at high energies. The finding could make some calculations easier, and is a rare case in which gravity seems to work in harmony with quantum mechanics, the theory of small particles. His full paper is published today in Nature.
Dr Toms explains: "The basic idea is that the value of the electric charge depends on how close you are to that charge.
"The number for the electric charge that you look up in the back of a textbook assumes that you are a very large distance - on the atomic scale - from the charge. The reason that the value changes with energy has to do with quantum mechanics.
"My research shows conclusively that charge is affected by gravity, and that it tends to make the charge weaker as you proceed to smaller distances. This is unexpected because in the complete absence of gravity the charge gets larger as the distance decreases."
In Dr Toms work, gravity seems to smoothe the interaction, making the force between the electron and photon nearly zero at high energies. This weakening of the force means that theorists can calculate the behaviour of high-energy electrons and photons after all.
"What gravity seems to do is make things better for you but there is still a lot of work to do", he warns.
More information: Nature paper online: http://www.nature. … 010.580.html
Provided by Newcastle University
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HA!
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How can these effects be experimentally confirmed? Is it possible to do so?
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Electromagnetism is a radiative force, the ability of electromagnetism to fracture the atomic nuclei is the weakforce. At certain energies this radiation merges as one, the electroweakforce (radiation).
We can call radiation negatively attractive (-1). Mass is attractive (+1). Therefore, before the big bang, out of a neutral field (0) attractiveness (0) radiation, mass and energy is derived. 0 = (+1) + (-1).
Qm is continuasly trying to find energies to unify the Electroweak force and the Strongforce, this will not happen. The strongforce cancels out radiation, it is mergable, but not in the way em and weakforce are.
Physics is still a long way from grandunification, there is still way too much confusion regarding drivers.
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I was hoping I wasn't the only one immature enough to laugh at that line. :D
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Damn, I was so fired up to make that comment when I clicked on the article! You beat me to it >:|
Here's a different article about the same thing if anyone's interested:
http://www.newsci...rge.html
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Yes, I am - thanks.
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When the field moves an event happens, a magnetized field is produced, the field is alive. One disturbance causes another of lesser size. Matter small as neutrinos evades us, there must by laws of divergence be matter which has degraded from neutrinos them selves. And so on infinity.
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Lots of words there. Have you published the equations you've developed for any of this? Because I'd hate to think your groundbreaking new physics was only being posted as comments at the end of a physorg article..... :)
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VK - damn you've worn your prom dress, but do you have a date? ... where are the links about where I can read about this 'we/our' knowledge? BTW, I love 5-*inf*; responses... in the future I'd recommending writing a research paper and submit it... it's more noteworthy...
AFATA - gravity is difficult for *anyone* to explain rationally, so more statistical research like this is welcomed, even if a tiny footstep.
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can someone please ban VK1 and his bullshit off this website?
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Really? I hadn't heard Einstein was a denier of space or other physicists for that matter. Can you provide some references?
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Dr. Sean Robinson of MIT, who in 2006 presented a much less rigorous treatment of this idea along with co-author and Nobel Laureate Dr. Frank Wilczek, called Toms' new and persuasive mathematical treatment of this idea "demonstrably flawless."
The closing quote: "To take things further, physicists would need to integrate more exotic aspects of quantum gravity such as additional dimensions and supersymmetry." And additional dimensions could mean that this effect *might* be detectable at the Large Hadron Collider...
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Yeah, I was thinking they really could have phrased that better :-)
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Gravity and the Strong Nuclear force would represent the negative side of the equation while the corresponding balance would be electromagnetic and weak nuclear interaction.
It's a rather interesting set of equations.
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Best vid I can offer so far is http://www.youtub...vlS8PLIo
There are a great many of us working on this and many don't want to share info yet. Soon though.
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Yea that must have hurt him a lot!!!!!
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Yeah but at least his loss proved his theory!
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HA!
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Probably because there's not much to it. If there was anything to it, it would be all over the news as it would represent an incredible breakthrough. If it sounds too good to be true and no one else is able to reproduce the results, then it likely is too good to be true.
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This is the same sort of misguiding info that tells Newton saw an apple falling from a tree and realised that the Moon had its influence on Earth.
It NEVER happened!
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Quantum theorys are wrong.
Model of atom is wrong.
nucleus of atoms expanding all a time.
Nucleus of atoms absorbs more and more energy all a time.
Also all kind of particle expanding all a time and absorbs more and more energy all a time.
There is very small particle who moving very very fast.lot of smaller what phtons are and this particle moving lot of faster what phtons moving. This particle emit energy for all visible universe particle.
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Any docs or vids on this? I'd like to see how they filtered local vectors of interference or noise out of the experiment.
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A juvenile effort to replicate this test can be seen here: http://www.youtub...aAHlC37I
Given the dearth of any kind of experimental controls in either case, nothing can be said to have been proven here. However, I have copies of some of Bushman’s patents and they’re very professional and (IMO) impressive, and they confirm his former position as a senior research scientist at Lockheed. So I haven’t ruled out the possibility that there’s a violation of the weak equivalence principle to be discovered with this kind of experiment.
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One has to realize that molecules of air are usualy not really charge-neutral, ergo air is (at least partially) ionized..
Now, Bushman said in the interview that he measured a strong magnetic field around the magnets involved in the experiment (6+ ft in diameter).
There might be some kinetic energy transfer happening between the source of the mag. field and the particles of ionized gas it is moving through. And at 6+ feet diameter it makes for a quite big paddle..
So wheras the object with no magnetic field is slowed down only by the aerodynamic resistance, the object with a strong/large and distorted* mag. field around it would have to cope with some extra resistance by moving through the not-so-charge-neutral medium (air).
*The special alignment of the magnets could be part of it, as the resulting mag.field of the proposed alignment would be quite distorted - with a specific shape, somehow involved in the kinetic process. Rotation of the field incl.
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And if, for the sake of argument, we accept the video claims of the Progressive Tech people…then we’d have to explain why the test magnets in an attractive configuration fell –faster- than the non-magnetized test mass, and much faster than the repulsive configuration of magnets.
Someone should run the experiment with sensible controls, at this point we don’t even know if the claims are true or not.
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Settle down Neil Adams...
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However, this could be easily tested by measuring the free fall terminal velocities (aerodynamic equilibrium) of both objects, rather than just the velocity difference after a short distance (air-dampened) free fall. If the terminal velocities differ, the cause will be aerodynamic.
No, not even for a japaneese sake! ;-D
That experiment clearly suffers from vast amounts of "human-factor" :-D and therefor is not much more that a nice free time activity.
Agree. And best to begin with the terminal vel. test.
Nothing fundamental involved IMO.
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It is theoretically possible that an intense and rapidly changing magnetic field could induce a tiny degree of opposing electromagnetic force in the air, but I’ve never heard of such an observation, even during the powerful EMPs of Sandia’s Z machine.
I think it’s important to keep in mind that “skepticism” means neither “belief” nor “disbelief,” it means “withholding judgment/opinion until sufficient data establishes the fact of the matter.” For now, there’s insufficient data to form a scientific opinion, even about the truth of the original claim.
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I'm merely pointing out some of the possibilities (which at this point are admittedly rather mere speculations) aswell as proposing a simple test to rule out an aerodynamic cause/origin, which would be the first thing on my to-do list if I were to discover such an odd effect/behaviour.
So much for "skepticism" ..
Cheers
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"Gravity" is of course embedded in all other forces and it all just depends on the actual charge of macrocosmic or microcosmic electromagnetic force.
Electromagnetic charges makes swirling movements in molecular gas and matter, concentrating "contracting gravity" gas and matter via the z-pinch effect, sorting and lumping the molecular gas and matter in larger spheres that are gently slung out ("antigravity") from the swirling centre when these spheres reach their critical weight comparing to the centripetal/centrifugal forces.
"Gravity" therefore goes both ways: Firstly inwards via the swirling electromagnetic z-pinch and secondly outwards via the swirling centrifugal forces.
"Gravity" is therefore not a constant and it should be excluded as such from the scientific society.
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