Re: Eotvos: Une questionne pour le Oncle du Al
From: ksh95 (ksh95_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/07/04
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Date: 6 Sep 2004 17:39:20 -0700
Uncle Al <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote in message
> 2) A reproducible non-null result would simply lose the EP, shift
> things over to affine gravitation, void Lorentz invariance;
> counterdemonstrate the isotropy of space and therefore break
> conservation of angular momentum by empirical falsfication. A lot of
> stuff that is postulated, consistent with prior observation, and
> unproven would suffer a new and disparate observation. Elderly
> tenured faculty will rage disbelief. A lot of worthy young minds will
> suddenly get well-deserved funding.
>
Just for the record I think its good to do far out experiments, but in
the interests of clarity I think its important to point out a few
things (all of which have been explained to you repeatedly on spr). A
non-null result of the parity eotvos experiment would suggest that
gravity is a non-local theory at absolutely gigantic length scales
(10^-9). A non-null result would suggest that that gravitational force
on silica atom A is determined by silica atom A's relative position to
silica atom B.
I'm not saying that a non-null result is impossible (I haven't thought
a lot about how non-locality on angstrom scales would effect other
physicsl results). What I am saying however is that non-locality would
break general relativity, special relativity, and by extension,
classical electrodynamics, the standard model, cosmology (especially
the early universe and big bang stuff), astronomy.....hell we might
even have to rethink quantum mechanics since it's only non-local in a
special relativity preserving kind of way.
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