Every tiny element of any mass follows the same rules, no matter where in the universe it might be
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Every tiny element of any mass follows the same rules, no matter where in the universe it might be
Gravity does not really affect large things. Gravitational potential derives from the tiny masses of things inside the atoms, and it affects the tiny things inside atoms – through a fine grained but not infinitely divisible field. It takes considerable memory and careful accounting, but it is not impossible and most all the elements needed, the human species has already worked out. I hated what Misner Thorne and Wheeler did with that ugly book. They trivialized a beautiful real field and tried again to make it some mechanical things that students memorize and go back to Einstein. The equations are not the real thing.
Now Joe Weber and Robert Forward laid the foundation for detecting changes in the gravitational potential. And also generating detectable changes in the potential for todays detectors. Robert’s dissertation is “Detection of Dynamic Gravitational Fields” because they are never static. Joe got trashed unfairly so he told me not to follow him. He said to read everything I could about Roberts work and follow that. It was good advice.
While I was at UMD, I worked with Steve Klosko on the NASA EGM (earth gravitational model calibration). That was real. The field is real, the effects are real. and over the 46 years since then I found there is nothing so small it is not affected by “dynamic” gravitational fields.
So it is the atoms and mass and energy of real things far away interacting with the small things here that matters. Yes the earth and sun and stars have many pieces, but the pieces do follow attoscopic, femtoscopic, picoscopic rules that are “fields all the way down”. Now competent high school and middle school students – or people now skipping colleges to start their own new industries and professions – working with their AIs can use fields and make things move or change.
I asked Joe what he wanted to use his detector for. He said without hesitation, “3D communication systems”. In Roberts dissertation he said you can combine electromagnetism and gravitation by focusing on the units to make them fit into one system with no gaps. He did not say it exactly like that, but I spent much of the intervening 46 years working out the details.
Particularly the last 26 years with the Internet Foundation. When all humans in all domain specific languages use a common set of global open resources to share their models, data, results, visualizations in dynamic form, then truly, gravitational engineering is possible.
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
