[TML] Is gravity backwards?

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 1/3/08 4:32 PM, "Anthony Jackson" <ajackson at iii.com> wrote:

> Jerry W Barrington wrote:
> 
>> My biggest problem with gravitons (besides their incompatibility with
>> relativity) is the shadowing.
> 
> Why do you think that mass would cause shadowing? There's no shadowing
> associated with electrostatic attraction.

It's inherent in his theory.  Ok, look at the Sun and Earth.  By his theory,
gravitons are flying around everywhere, but the Sun is blocking some that
would hit Earth from that side.  That lack (a "shadow") allows the gravitons
on Earth's far side to push it towards Earth.  Now, Put the Moon close to
the Sun in Earth's sky.  Same logic applies, adding a bit more push that
direction.  Ok, now let the Moon slip directly in between (an eclipse).
Some of the shadow that was pulling Earth towards the Sun is now in fact the
shadow that is instead pulling the Moon.  This would reduce the pull on
Earth.

>> 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.
> 
> Um... while we don't know how to integrate relativity with particle
> physics, graviton theory works just fine for Newtonian gravity.

Exactly.  We've already moved on from Newtonian to Einsteinian.  Graviton
theory doesn't address the mass increase and length & time decreases that
relativity does, and that have been experimentally verified.  Nor the excess
precession of Mercury, or the bending of light.