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To: PonyTailGuy
This may be a completely uninformed question (I'm an EE, not a physicist), but gravity is a force, right? Light is a particle, right?

Or have we moved on, and discovered that gravity is now a particle, and so is light?

I already realize that there are no such thing as particles (part waveform, part particle).

Gravity, being a force is related to acceleration, not speed. mass times acceleration equals force.

Is this stupid? (Probably)
17 posted on 06/23/2003 11:49:27 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs
This may be a completely uninformed question (I'm an EE, not a physicist), but gravity is a force, right? Light is a particle, right?

There are four fundamental forces in nature:

Strong force
Weak force
Electromagnetism (EM) Light is an electromagnetic wave
Gravity

All of the fundamental forces are considered Exchange Forces. In other words the force involves an exchange of one or more particles.

The exchange particles are as follows:

Strong – The pion (and others)
Electromagnetic (EM) – The photon
Weak – The W and Z
Gravity – Believed to be the graviton

An addition by Physicist:

Note: The pion does mediate the inter-nucleon force. That force isn't fundamental, however. The fundamental force is the inter-quark force that binds the quarks into hadrons (such as protons, neutrons and pions), and that is what we usually mean by the strong force, nowadays. The force between hadrons is a residual color dipole interaction that is analogous to the Van der Waals force in electromagnetism.

21 posted on 06/23/2003 12:08:34 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: RinaseaofDs
You are getting too series.
26 posted on 06/23/2003 12:30:26 PM PDT by cinFLA
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To: RinaseaofDs
Now my brain hurts...why do I enter these threads?
38 posted on 06/23/2003 1:30:55 PM PDT by Florida_Freeper
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