[TML] Is gravity backwards?

Anthony Jackson ajackson at iii.com
Fri Jan 4 10:34:07 MST 2008


Jerry W Barrington wrote:

> 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.

Current versions of graviton theory have trouble dealing with 
relativity, because they're modeled on the photon theory of 
electromagnetism, which also has trouble dealing with relativity.

The thing is, we know photons exist, and the photon is the exchange 
particle of the electromagnetic force, and even though we don't know how 
to do it, we have to assume there's a way to combine QED with 
Relativity, which means there has to be _some_ photon theory of 
electromagnetism that's compatible with relativity.

Such a theory should also allow for a graviton theory of gravity that's 
compatible with relativity.


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