Re: An Idea for Quantum Gravity (Criticisms Welcome)

Griff wrote:
A graviton's sole purpose in life is (as I understand it) to give other
particles mass. This concept worries me slightly for two reasons:

Actually I believe the Higgs Boson is thought to give particles their mass.


1 - Gravitons never appear to exist on their own. There have been lots
of time & money searching for these, but with no tangible success in
this endevour that I'm aware of.

2 - One never finds examples of particles "missing" a graviton. for
examples, particles generated in a particle accelerator always have the
correct mass right from the very instant that they are created. Surely
searching for particles with the wrong gravitational mass would be far
easier a task than searching for "naked" gravitons themselves?

Also, we know that light (which has no mass) is bent by gravity
(gravitational lensing). I understand this in terms of warping of
space-time into a well, but not in terms of gravitons NOT interacting
with photons. Skewing the wafeform of the photon seems more
sensible... This reminds me of (I think it was termed) the "London
force" that skews the electron clouds in molecules at close range.

I guess the way to disprove this theory would be to find a way of
artificially skewing the wave form and seeing if this affected the
gravitational force...

Yeah. *All* particles involved would have to have their waveforms skewed simultaneously. I don't know whether or not this is possible.


Having said all the above, I should confess that I'm not a physicist at
all, just someone with a vague scientific back-ground (and apologies if
it shows...).

Griff


It should be blatantly obvious that I'm not a physicist either so I don't mind. :) Thanks for writing.

Brian
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