Re: Scientific basis for Black Holes?

From: Donald Hamilton (dlham_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 11/28/04


Date: 28 Nov 2004 06:08:14 -0800

Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message news:<KQcqd.474621$D%.234913@attbi_s51>...
> Donald Hamilton wrote:
>
> > Yes - the hammer and feather fell at the same rate because the protons
> > that make up both of them have the same mass - so they will fall at
> > the same rate.
> > What's so hard about that - its just common sense. Its unbelievable
> > that physicists cannot figure that out!
> >
>
> Even massless particles like photons fall at the same rate. What's so
> hard about that - it's a prediction of General Relativity, confirmed
> by observations.

Does that mean GR nullifies Newton's theory of Gravitation?? Newton's
Gravity seems to have a lot more going for it then GR.

Don H.



Relevant Pages

  • Re: Scientific basis for Black Holes?
    ... >> Even massless particles like photons fall at the same rate. ... > Does that mean GR nullifies Newton's theory of Gravitation?? ...
    (sci.physics)
  • Re: Scientific basis for Black Holes?
    ... >> Even massless particles like photons fall at the same rate. ... > Does that mean GR nullifies Newton's theory of Gravitation?? ...
    (sci.physics)
  • Re: space?
    ... >> comprising space which is negative matter having negative energy. ... > supersymmetric partners of the normal particles. ... >> I thought you believed in curved space, not gravitation. ... > The consensus of tens of thousands of particle physicists, ...
    (sci.physics)
  • Re: The theories of Yilmaz, Puthoff & Haisch on Gravity and Zero Point Energy
    ... I will be extremely interested in your copy of "Gravitation" (whatever ... And as to GR physicists: I am sure the GR swamp is an exciting maze, ... The problem with genius is that it can only be recognized by another ... look at Newton's theory of the spectrum, ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: Gravitons and black holes
    ... >> Thomas Heger wrote: ... which preconditions it uses and how modells work. ... > If physicists wouldn't take philosophy as an insult, ... > In case of gravitation, there is a relation between gravitation and 'space', ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)

Quantcast