Re: What's up with gravity wave detection?

From: vonroach (hadrainc_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 08/24/04


Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:09:25 GMT

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 05:46:06 GMT, eric@flesch.org (Eric Flesch) wrote:

>On 23 Aug 2004 17:36:06 -0700, greenfield_7@hotmail.com (Jim
>Greenfield) wrote:

....

But...but... shouldn't we find out what `gravity' really is before we
go too much farther. Newton - a force, Einstein - an alteration in
spacetime around a mass. But why does one mass move toward another
mass against its own inertia. If it is `falling into another masses
spacetime `hole' - why? Don't say it's a force because then we are
back to Newton, who admitted he didn't know why the observation was
valid. Just a simple answer if possible: what is gravity? We have
all observed the action... now - why? what is a `graviton'? what is a
`gravitational wave'? what is quantum gravity?



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