Re: Are Gravitational Waves Electromagnetic waves?

From: PD (pdraper_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: 8 Feb 2005 10:37:23 -0800

Ben wrote:
> "PD" <pdraper@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:<1107809499.787661.123740@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>...
> > Ben wrote:
> > > I would like to offer a question to the masses.
> > >
> > > If gravitational waves are a ripple of space-time, caused by a
> > > colossal event, then space-time will contract and expand along
their
> > > path.
> > >
> > > If electromagnetic waves were a ripple of space-time,
> >
> > Yeah, but they're not.
> >
> > > caused by a
> > > minor event, then space-time would also expand and contract along
> > > their path.
> > >
> > > If a photon decays into an electron, a positron and a neutrino.
> >
> > Yeah, but it doesn't.
> >
> > > One
> > > being contracted space-time; one being expanded space-time and a
> > > neutrino being residual energy.
> >
> > Yeah, but that's not what an electron, a positron, and a neutrino
are.
> >
> > >
> > > Then would this elementary theory explain the basis of mass,
energy,
> > > electromagnetic waves and a myriad of other connections between
> > > quantum mechanics and relativity?
> >
> > Yeah, but it's wrong.
> >
> > PD
>
> Perhaps trying to think about what I have posted would be an
> interseting alternative to dismissing it. That way you might
> understand it.
> Of course your response will be dismissive and you will not try to
> understand anything, so just don't reply.

I did think about it. I just didn't give you all the reasons why I
dismissed it. Your mistake was thinking that it's proper to sketch out
a new, from-the-ground-up concept, without worrying about whether any
of the concepts match up with anything that's already known. This is a
common mistake made by amateur or very young (perhaps that's the same
thing) physicists; they think that progress is made by coming up with
the Big Idea, the Novel Insight, and the details will follow later;
they think the big hurdle for getting acceptance of a new idea is
getting people to let go of their traditional thinking.

If you like, I can go into the details about how I KNOW each of the
points you made are dismissable. Not *believe* they are dismissable;
*know* they are dismissable.

PD

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