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Mar 13 2013 05:59pm
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Some people think there may be gravity waves or gravitons. These are hypothetical solutions to the gravity problem as gravity waves or gravitons are observable through effects that are attributed to them but can't be observed directly.
It seems reasonable that there should be a gravitational field and a particle associated with that field, but so far that is a bust. Measuring gravity waves should be possible though. There is a program that is being worked on to do this, but they are having problems (human problems, like funding and such):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Antenna

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Mar 14 2013 02:39pm
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heh so we are back to spooky action at a distance. :)


No, the Gforce works through fields of force. It's just that the Gforce is the unit that binds all three laws of force together, like a unified force theory, which it is.

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It seems reasonable that there should be a gravitational field and a particle associated with that field, but so far that is a bust. Measuring gravity waves should be possible though. There is a program that is being worked on to do this, but they are having problems (human problems, like funding and such):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Antenna


They already have laser interferometers on earth that measure gravitational waves. They have found nothing while operating for years.

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Mar 14 2013 03:32pm
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No, the Gforce works through fields of force. It's just that the Gforce is the unit that binds all three laws of force together, like a unified force theory, which it is.



They already have laser interferometers on earth that measure gravitational waves. They have found nothing while operating for years.


In fact, these laser interferomters are built just like the Michelson and Morley experiment, and they are receiving the same results as they did back in the 1800s. Why do they expect to find something different?
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In fact, these laser interferomters are built just like the Michelson and Morley experiment, and they are receiving the same results as they did back in the 1800s. Why do they expect to find something different?


Well the short answer is sensitivity. In space you can put the satellites REALLY far apart, making the arm length much longer (the project I linked earlier has an arm length of 1 million kilometers.
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Mar 14 2013 07:05pm
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Well the short answer is sensitivity. In space you can put the satellites REALLY far apart, making the arm length much longer (the project I linked earlier has an arm length of 1 million kilometers.


Then the evidence they find would be just as much evidence of a luminiferous aether as much as evidence for gravitational waves.
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Mar 14 2013 09:37pm
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Then the evidence they find would be just as much evidence of a luminiferous aether as much as evidence for gravitational waves.


No, because it would not be correlated with velocity.

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