There sure is. Just boil a pot of water and you will
see water molecules move away from the earth's
surface as the London couplings become
less coherent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers
Emergent gravity
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2005-12/articlesu25.html#x34-720006.3
Sakharov's induced gravity: a modern perspective
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0204062
The Origin of Gravity
Authors: C. P. Kouropoulos
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0107015
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0107015v1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_London
> I understand that as a form of energy
> it is expected to induce a spacetime curvature, but has this
> prediction of GR actually been tested? Is it at all subject to any
> controversy?
<< Sakharov observed that many condensed matter
systems give rise to emergent phenomena which are
identical to general relativity quantitatively. >>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_gravity
Sue...
> Thanks,
>
> Armin
There has been speclation that the GTR metric is bent round in a fifth
dimension through branes and that branes have helped to produce the
Big Bang, although what the connection to electromagnetism is I really
don't know.
The operation of light tweezers can be explained quite easily by
classical electromagnetic rheory without the need to involve gravity.
- Ian Parker
You miss the point.
Gravity/Inertia can be explained by electrodynamics.
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2005-12/articlesu25.html#x34-720006.3
Sue...
>
> - Ian Parker
There is no evidence that GTR is linked to any other forces.
Which is mostly why it's GTR, rather than science or computers or
robots or thinking,
lasers, DVD, GPS, or evolution.
>
> There has been speclation that the GTR metric is bent round in a fifth
> dimension through branes and that branes have helped to produce the
> Big Bang, although what the connection to electromagnetism is I really
> don't know.
>
> The operation of light tweezers can be explained quite easily by
> classical electromagnetic rheory without the need to involve gravity.
>
> - Ian Parker- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
No it can't; not yet at any rate. Ian is right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_field_theories#The_current_state_of_unified_field_theories
"Gravity has yet to be successfully included in a theory of
everything."
--Mike Jr
>
> Sue...
>
>
>
> > - Ian Parker
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/forces/unify.html#c1
http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2595
This is interesting. If there is mirror matter it will add
significantly to our understanding of the weak force which would
acquire a symmetry. However to be frank all that he has proved is that
dark matter is cool - he hasn't really identified a particle.
- Ian Parker
Whether you use Einstein's field equations based on
the electromagnetic energy density of a volume of
space-time or an induction mechanism, the
gravito-inertial field is being explained in terms of
electrodynamics. The difference is one of heirearchy
or "which force is more fundamental".
The electromagnetic energy tensor
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/lectures/node128.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress-energy_tensor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_density_of_electric_and_magnetic_fields
Electrons, positrons and the associated Coulomb
forces have a fairly solid claim of being "fundamental"
so their derivatives can't be dismissed without experiments
with resolution around 1 part in 10^40.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/forces/funfor.html
Sue...
> http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2005-12/articlesu25.html#x34-720006.3
The authors of that article are colleagues of mine, and I was surprised
to hear that they made such a claim. So I checked.
There is *nothing* in the paper you cite that claims "Gravity/Inertia
can be explained by electrodynamics." As far as I can tell, there is
nothing that even be misinterpreted to imply such a thing. You are
just making this up.
The paper is about "analog gravity," the use of nongravitational
models to describe aspects of gravity. The paper makes it very,
very clear that at this point, the idea that such models can provide
anything close to a complete description of "emergent gravity" is
speculation. Furthermore, none of the analog models discussed
is "electrodynamics" -- nothing whatsoever in the paper supports
your claim.
The conclusion of the paper you cite is the following, in full:
In this review article we have seen the interplay between standard
general relativity and various analogies that can be used to
capture aspects of its behaviour. These analogies have ranged
from rather general but very physical analogue models based on
fluid-acoustics, geometrical optics, and wave optics, to highly
specific models based on BECs, liquid helium, slow light, etc.
Additionally, we have seen several rather abstract mathematical
toy models that bring us to such exotic structures and ideas as
birefringence, bimetricity, Finsler spaces, and Sakharov???s induced
gravity.
The primary reason that these analogies were developed within
the general relativity community was to help in the understanding
of general relativity by providing very down-to-earth models of
otherwise subtle behaviour in general relativity. Secondary reasons
include the rather speculative suggestion that there may be more
going on than just analogy - it is conceivable (though perhaps
unlikely) that one or more of these analogue models could suggest
a relatively simple and useful way of quantizing gravity that
side-steps much of the technical machinery currently employed
in such efforts. A tertiary concern (at least as far as the general
relativity community is concerned) is the use of relativity and
differential geometric techniques to improve understanding of
various aspects of condensed matter physics.
The authors expect interest in analogue models to continue unabated,
and suspect that there are several key but unexpected issues whose
resolution would be greatly aided by the analysis of appropriate
analogue models.
Please try to be a bit more honest when you cite papers.
Steve Carlip
===
> There is *nothing* in the paper you cite that claims "Gravity/Inertia
> can be explained by electrodynamics." As far as I can tell, there is
> nothing that even be misinterpreted to imply such a thing. You are
> just making this up.
<< One of the more fascinating approaches to “quantum gravity”
is the suggestion, typically attributed to Sakharov
that gravity itself may not be “fundamental physics”. Indeed
it is now a relatively common opinion, maybe not mainstream
but definitely a strong minority opinion, that gravity (and in
particular the whole notion of spacetime and spacetime geometry)
might be no more “fundamental” than is fluid dynamics.
The word “fundamental” is here used in a rather technical sense
- fluid mechanics is not fundamental because there is a known
underlying microphysics, that of
--> molecular dynamics, <--
of which
fluid mechanics is only the low-energy low-momentum limit.
Indeed the very concepts of density and velocity field, which
are so central to the Euler and continuity equations, make no
sense at the microphysical level and emerge only as one
averages over timescales and distance-scales larger than the
mean free time and mean free path. >>
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2005-12/articlesu25.html#x34-720006.3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRAvity_PipE
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/grape/grape_ewald.htm
Sakharov's induced gravity: a modern perspective
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0204062
Sue...
> > There is *nothing* in the paper you cite that claims "Gravity/Inertia
> > can be explained by electrodynamics." As far as I can tell, there is
> > nothing that even be misinterpreted to imply such a thing. You are
> > just making this up.
> << One of the more fascinating approaches to ???quantum gravity???
> is the suggestion, typically attributed to Sakharov
> that gravity itself may not be ???fundamental physics???. Indeed
> it is now a relatively common opinion, maybe not mainstream
> but definitely a strong minority opinion, that gravity (and in
> particular the whole notion of spacetime and spacetime geometry)
> might be no more ???fundamental??? than is fluid dynamics.
> The word ???fundamental??? is here used in a rather technical sense
> - fluid mechanics is not fundamental because there is a known
> underlying microphysics, that of
> --> molecular dynamics, <--
> of which
> fluid mechanics is only the low-energy low-momentum limit.
> Indeed the very concepts of density and velocity field, which
> are so central to the Euler and continuity equations, make no
> sense at the microphysical level and emerge only as one
> averages over timescales and distance-scales larger than the
> mean free time and mean free path. >>
Analogy: 1a. Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise
dissimilar. b. A comparison based on such similarity.
What this says is that there is a "strong minority opinion" among
physicists that gravity might emerge from some more fundamental
underlying theory, in analogy to the way that fluid mechanics
emerges from molecular dynamics.
To claim that this means that "Gravity/Inertia can be explained by
electrodynamics" is to be deliberately obtuse.
Steve Carlip
We're happy with an electrodynamic solution to
gravity, see Eq.(4) in this brief,
http://physics.trak4.com/GR_Charge_Couple.pdf
Steve, all you need to do is solve Guv=Tuv for a
simple "charge couple", have you tried it?
Regards
Ken S. Tucker
- Ian Parker
> All these mental masturbations are of course great
> fun and entertianment, but let us not forget that these
> stories/tales/theories will not buy you as single cup of
> coffee, unless you are a fortunate teacher, like Carlip,
> whose job it is to convey heuristic / current knowledge
> to the next generation... ahaha...
> Thanks for the laughs, guys.... ahahaha... ahahanson
Hanson. As I have said only Jesse Owens can provide luminous sources
of VUV/soft X rays through synchrotron radiation. There is the free
electron laser that works by quantum inversions produced inside a
synchrotron.
As has been said many times you need GTR for GPS. Also GTR is needed
to determine any orbit with high prescision. This is of great
importance in terms of Earth crossers. Blowing them up with nuclear
bombs is NOT a good idea. Far better to determine orbits accurately
and give them a "nudge" of mm/s
- Ian Parker
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orbits are not done by curvature of space
it is done as all the attrarction forces
by
FORCE MESSENGERS !!
or else there was no need for all those 'Graviton' theories
it is not accidental the Einstein and even his followers
never succeeded by their great efforts
to unify all forces **including the curvature of space *
because that is not what it is in nature
it was only a wrong (though ingenious ) guess of Einstein
unlike SR that is right !!
space i s nothing
and that nothing cannot have any properties except
hosting matter
the fact that 'curvature of mass occurs only by
THE PRESENCE OF MASS
is a clear indication that the main hero of gravitation is
MASS and not empty space !!
ATB
Y.Porat
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http://physics.trak4.com/GR_Charge_Couple.pdf
>
> > Steve, all you need to do is solve Guv=Tuv for a
> > simple "charge couple", have you tried it?
> > Regards
> > Ken S. Tucker- Hide quoted text -
>
> Are we in the Sun? Gravity is QUADRUPOLAR (Spin 2 in Elementary
> Particle terms) wheras electromagnetism is DIPOLAR. A dipolar field
> would have the Earth in the Sun in 100 million years.
> - Ian Parker
The EFE solution in the quoted paper leads to the
prediction that g-waves do not exist, and it was expected
LIGO to have thumped a clear signal by now, but it has
NOT. Based on that empirical evidence, the paper is
(so far) physically superior to classical GR.
Regards
Ken S. Tucker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_waves
where Quad = - d^2/dt + Del represents the flat-space d'Alembertian
operator, and τ(αβ) represents the stress-energy tensor plus quadratic
terms involving h(αβ) . This is just a wave equation for the field
with a source, despite the fact that the source involves terms
quadratic in the field itself. That is, it can be shown that solutions
to this equation are waves traveling with velocity 1 in these
coordinates. (We have put c = 1).
To get gravitational waves we need to throw masses around at an
apreciable fraction of c. It is, as I said quadrupolar.
- Ian Parker
We have a stress tensor not an electric or magnetic field
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/open?pubNo=lrr-2005-12&page=articlesu25.html
I gave the authors credit for the same observation
made by Einstein:
<<A mathematically unified field theory is sought in which
the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field are
interpreted only as different components or manifestations
of the same uniform field, the field equations where possible
no longer consisting of logically mutually independent summands. >>
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-lecture.html
If some lack of intellect is shown in their similar statement
you might offer your fellow workers some assistance in
putting their thoughts to text.
Sue...
>
> Steve Carlip
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i said FORCE MESSENGERS
i ddint say electric or magnetic field
now that is that fucken tensor stress
do you think that the physical reality
can be smeared on your mathematics paper and thats all ??
what is your fucken tensor stands for PHYSICALLY ??
does it include mass or not ??
how does it creates gravity ??
is it force messengers ??
and if messengers - do they move in straight lines or not ??
or is it curved space ??
reality is much more specific than abstract formulas
keep well
Y.Porat
--------------------------
- Ian Parker
physics is not just mathematics
to say a 'field' is too abstarct for real physical understanding
and even worse
for physics advance !!
Y.Porat
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> say).
>
> - Ian Parker
- Ian Parker
This is fuckin' funny. This wonderful Yankee gadget out in space
is supposed to detect "orbiting pulsars" light years away and it can't
even detect the Moon orbiting the Earth, something the river estuary
just down the road can do.
http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EASYTIDE/EasyTide/ShowPrediction.aspx?PortID=0111&PredictionLength=7
The Moon is only travelling at 1km/s it gives off very little in the
way of gravitational radiation. Pulsars are being hurled around at
round about 5%c. Tides are NOT radiation.
BTW - LISA is NASA but a considerable input is coming from ESA. I hope
there will be collaboration on ultra stability in general.
- Ian Parker
> <<A mathematically unified field theory is sought in which
> the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field are
> interpreted only as different components or manifestations
> of the same uniform field, the field equations where possible
> no longer consisting of logically mutually independent summands. >>
Sought: past and past participle of seek
Seek: 1. To try to locate or discover; search for. 2. To endeavor to
obtain or reach: seek a college education. 3. To go to or toward:
Water seeks its own level. 4. To inquire for; request: seek directions
from a police officer. 5. To try; endeavor: seek to do good.
Steve Carlip
Sounds like our friend Steve pleasured himself over
the Labor Day Weekend...good stuff, (I've gotta get
out more).
Regards
Ken S. Tucker
It is the mark of a true physicist. Mathematicians
can always resolve an absurdity. A physicist will
frequently resort to drowning it. :o)
BTW your "Charge couple" paper still
has the beginning at the end and it still
requires electrons and positrons that are
about 10^40 times larger than those we
can get at the garden supply and use
in this toy model.
--C. P. Kouropoulos
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0107015 222KB
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0107015v1 222KB
Sue...