We should always start out a in depth science discussion with some
commonsense ordinary pictures of life so that the nonscientists can at
least
partake somewhat in the discussion. The trouble with the Cavendish
Experiment of 1797 is that it attempts to show Newtonian gravity as
mass attracting other mass. Trouble is that no human experience has
ever witnessed a mass attracting other mass, other than EM mass
attracting EM. When a human falls out of an airplane to parachute, is
it the mass of Earth attracting the mass of the human, or is it the EM
of Earth attracting the EM of the human? Now Cavendish in 1797 had
little knowledge of electricity and magnetism and his experiment made
no effort to account for the EM involved.
The worst trouble with Cavendish's Experiment is that all matter is EM
and how do you or Cavendish know that the torsion beam of two lead
weights and the other beam of two larger lead weights are in "perfect
balance" and not tilted so that the beam is tilted to give an
appearance of attraction when there was no Newtonian attraction.
Every person on Earth that has played with magnets knows that there is
an attraction and repulsion for they feel it and then visibly see it.
Every person on Earth has never seen two massive objects, due to
weight alone, attract each other, for no-one has ever felt it, nor
visibly seen it.
There is an old saying, that you do not need to see the skunk because
the smell tells you there is a skunk. In the Cavendish Experiment, the
only force of attraction that humans have ever felt, witnessed,
visibly observed and measured is the electro-magnetic force. Cavendish
and the modern day followers have never isolated EM in the experiment
and never compensated for the jiggling of Plate Tectonics, and have
never written into the experiment the errors due to the fact that you
cannot precisely balance the beams, nor have identical weights for the
tiny deflection assumed.
So what the Plutonium-antiCavendish Experiment is going to do is
settle the score and prove that EM-gravity is real and true and that
Newtonian gravity and GR are fictions.
Materials involved:
(1) magnets and devices that measure the magnetic force
(2) Galileo inclined planes made of iron and one that is at right
angles-- a box of iron
Set-up:
Instead of torsion beams and torque in the Cavendish Experiment we
find the lowest strength magnet that can stay stuck at 90 degrees
incline. Any lower and it falls off, like a magnet that is too weak
and falls off the refrigerator door. We proceed to find this weakest
amount of magnetism so that it does not fall off at 90 degrees, then
where it remains put on a inclined plane.
Unlike the Cavendish Experiment that totally ignores EM, here in the
Plutonium experiment we immerse in EM and find the weakest EM for a
magnet to stick. If there is any Newtonian gravity mass attraction
then we would solve an equation like this:
Force to stick and stay put = EM force of magnet + Newtonian force of
mass attraction
If in the experiment, we find that the EM force cannot be lower so
that the Newtonian force is a positive nonzero force, then we have
proved that there is no mass attraction for other mass. We would prove
that only EM mass attracts/repels EM mass.
P.S. judging from my steel 50lb weights suspended with a spacing gap
of only 5mm apart, required a rather strong bar magnet on one of those
masses to narrow the gap.
In other words, an only proper Cavendish style experiment can be
performed with EM and to see if there is a residual force that we
would call Newtonian gravity.
Archimedes Plutonium
http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium/
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies