[TML] Is gravity backwards?

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 1/3/08 2:39 PM, "Anthony Jackson" <ajackson at iii.com> wrote:

> Bruce Johnson wrote:
> 
>> It appears that he's pushing a theory of gravitaion that involves an
>> exchange of 'gravitons'.
> 
> To be fair, the virtual photon exchange theory of electromagnetism is
> perfectly workable, so using virtual gravitons to account for gravity is
> not wacky. However, if he doesn't have a problem with electrostatic
> attraction, he shouldn't have a problem with gravity.

If you go to his Pushing Gravity link down at the bottom, you'll also see
that plate tectonics is false.  The earth has cracks because it is growing
by absorbing all those gravitons!

My biggest problem with gravitons (besides their incompatibility with
relativity) is the shadowing.  As a spacecraft travels near Earth/Moon, it
is pulled by both.  Oh, and the Sun for that matter.  When it goes behind
any one object (in relation to the others) the gravity would change.

Or look at it this way: the Earth and Moon are both pulled towards the Sun.
When the Moon is near the Sun in the sky, the pulls add together.  During an
eclipse, some of the Sun's pull should be cancelled by the Moon being in the
way.  That would be measurable.

For that matter, the formula relating gravity to distance should be
*measurably* different under gravitons.  That would change orbital dynamics.
Yet our formulae for orbital dynamics work.  Ergo, gravitons are false.