<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>[kulak]: Is there some book or article that summarizes all the key details and equations, like "graviton" density, speed, and mass, and provides answers to questions ...? I've seen such things covered briefly on this site, but it would be great if there were a comprehensive treatment of them, at the level of a normal undergraduate physics text book.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
Good news. The answers to those questions (to the extent they are known) and many like them are the subject of the new book <i>Pushing Gravity</i>. See [url]
metaresearch.org/store/advanced/default.asp
[/url] for order information.
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>such as why don't planets slow down and fall into the sun (due to more pressure in the direction of motion)?<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
Drag is proportional to the product of graviton mass and graviton speed (among other factors). Gravitational force is proportional to the product of (graviton mass) times (graviton speed)-squared. One need only posit very small masses and very large speeds to make gravitational force just right while drag remains negligible.
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>why don't things burn up (due to absorbing all that energy)?<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
If all graviton energy is scattered, no net force results. If all graviton energy is absorbed, bodies would vaporize from the excess heat energy. Then Slabinski (see his chapter in the above book) discovered that one only needs some absorption, however small, to create an asymmetry for the scattered gravitons (which add no heat) that allow the scattered gravitons to produce a net force.
When realistic numbers are plugged into the equations, one can get normal gravitational force with minimal excess heat, consistent with observational constraints.
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>are graviton strikes perfectly inelastic?<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
Yes, meaning that some gravitons are absorbed while by far the overwhelming majority are scattered. -|Tom|-
