Re: Gamma-rays and Gravity
- From: "Sue..." <suzysewnshow@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:01:26 -0800
On Nov 3, 1:52 pm, "RH Nigl" <rhn...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I believe these questions are opposite to current thinking
regarding the effect 'gravity' has on gamma-radiation.
By gamma radiation you mean light.
That
thinking (and testing), suggesting, (at least to me), that 'gravity'
as a force, somehow 'precedes' gamma-radiation.
GR imposes a light speed limit on
gravitational/inertial interactions. Wouldn't that imply
the opposite hierarchy?
My question is: Could the opposite condition be true?
To wit, could gamma-radiation affecting particles, at the
quantum level linking those particles inextricably to the
entire EM spectrum (in spacetime), actually cause 'gravity'?
That is, I mean, I think this notion is opposite to current
thinking, so, if true, please correct my misunderstanding.
The unification of gravity/inertia with electromagnetism was one
of Einstein's goals with GR.
<< A second problem which at present is the subject of
lively interest is the identity between the gravitational field
and the electromagnetic field. The mind striving after
unification of the theory cannot be satisfied that two fields
should exist which, by their nature, are quite independent. >>
<<...there is reason to hope that a generalization of the
gravitation equations will be found which includes the laws
of the electromagnetic field. This hope has in fact been
fulfilled although I do not know whether the formal
connection so derived can really be regarded as an
enrichment of physics as long as it does not yield
any new physical connections. In particular a field
theory can, to my mind, only be satisfactory when
it permits the elementary electrical bodies to be represented
as solutions free from singularities.>>
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-lecture.html
In a hundred years of searching in front of Einstein's
horse, we have yet to lay eyes on the cart. But there
are some hints the cart may be located on the other
end of the horse.
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/GSP/SEM0L6OVGJE_0.html
And a couple of follow up questions: Could this suggested
'linkage' of particle to wave be hypothetically expressed
as the wave-particle duality?
Such a linkage is far more than hypothetical.
<< one now has one of the most beautiful and accurate
theories mankind has achieved in this area, the QED
or Quantum Electro-Dynamics. It is expressed in
mathematical language, perfect for this kind of enterprise,
going beyond the everyday dialectic of wave and particle duality
to the synthesis of a quantum field. >>
http://nobelprize.org/physics/articles/ekspong/index.html
Also, could gamma-radiation be considered a 'self-promulgating'
wave--a 'fundamental' force of sorts?
Yes... that is the sort of expression that Lewis Carroll would be
proud of.
<<
He took his vorpal sword in hand and
One, two! One, two! And through and through /
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! /
He left it dead, and with its head /
He went galumphing back./
"Jabberwocky"
--Lewis Carroll >>
:-)
Try:
"On the Interpretation of the Redshift in a Static Gravitational
Field"
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9907017
Sue...
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