Re: Slabinski and Mingst/Stowe disagree in Pushing Gravity

On Thu, 05 May 2005 aphidias@xxxxxxxxxx (Strael Nosduj) wrote:
>Knowing the value of G, and taking the largest possible value
>of mu consistent with observation, we can compute the minimum possible
>value of phi as G/mu^2. This is the minimum amount of momentum flux
>that must be absorbed by material bodies in order for them to be
>attracted with the observed force of gravity.

Ooppss.. I meant to say the minimum absorbed flux is phi mu, which
equals G/mu, which gets smaller as mu gets larger, and since we have
an upper bound on mu, we have a lower bound on the absorbed flux (phi
mu). Of course, this is just the net unbalanced flux. The total
absorbed flux is many orders of magnitude greater.

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