Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
From news@teleport.com Fri Apr 5 03:19:39 1996
From: email@domain.com (Glacé Clasher)
Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
Subject: Re: A Q RE: Gravity

In article <4jgri0$lgp@mojo.eng.umd.edu>, Graeme A Stewart
<graeme@tonatiuh.igeofcu.unam.mx> wrote:

>Hmm. OK, the ship (or anything else) wouldn't feel the gravitational
>pull instantly, and you would definetely have to wait the light
>travel time. I think that you'd probably get a nice bunch of
>gravitational waves, rather like dropping a metal ball onto
>the "rubber mat" which is used as a GR analogue, it would "bounce"
>around a bit, before setteling down to a stable curvature. These
>gravy waves might give you some interesting additional effects.

I wonder why you have the unmitigated pretentious nerve to pronounce such
an opinion as if it were factual information you were passing along and as
if you actually knew what the time of interaction between two bodies could
be. It is more than just very likely that gravity is a non-local quantum
force. Non-local means (among other things) that the force is not
propagated at the velocity of an EM wave. Like the Aharanov-Bohm effect
the interaction is mediated/propagated along the potentials (not
positionally, as in a field) and therefore takes no time to propagate.
Such an interaction as gravity is related to the overlapping quantum state
which can occur between interacting particles and overlapping quantum
states do not propagate at a finite velocity.

Regards,

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