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To: PatrickHenry
Nope. One interesting thing though. Does Physicist's calculation for the energy of the gravitational wave from the revolving masses show it as a source or sink? If you calculated it using the equations for radiation from charge by substituting mass for q you wind up with negative energy flow, that is the "gravitational Poynting vector" for the gravitational and cogravitational field is directed inward. This makes sense since like charges repel and like masses attract. Now we have all these researchers spending tax dollars looking for gravitational waves radiated from distant bodies and they aren't seeing a thing. Hmmmm, I wonder why. As I said about cosmology and quantum physics....
103 posted on 11/01/2002 8:22:34 PM PST by Barry Goldwater
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To: Barry Goldwater
If you calculated it using the equations for radiation from charge by substituting mass for q you wind up with

...a mess, because the units would be hopelessly buggered, and because EM waves propagate as dipole fluctuations while gravitational waves propagate as quadrupole fluctuations, and because electromagnetism is a vector interaction while gravity is a tensor interaction, and so on.

negative energy flow, that is the "gravitational Poynting vector" for the gravitational and cogravitational field is directed inward.

Now you're confusing the field vector with the flow of energy.

You culled all this from the work of someone named Roland Dishington, you say? I'm afraid that all I've learned about him is that he served on the USC fencing team in the dismal 1941 season.

104 posted on 11/01/2002 9:17:41 PM PST by Physicist
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