Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"
|    sci.physics.research    |    Current physics research. (Moderated)    |    17,516 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 15,803 of 17,516    |
|    Tom Roberts to Lawrence Crowell    |
|    Re: Gravitational lensing of gravitons b    |
|    29 Aug 17 07:21:34    |
      From: tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net              On 8/22/17 1:44 AM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:       > You can think of a graviton in the weak field limit, where gravitons do not       > interact with each other, as similar to a pair of photons in an entangled       > triplet state.              Hmmmm. I strongly suspect you can think of gravitons ONLY in the weak-field       limit. We don't have a theory of quantum gravity, so the best we can do today       is       consider analogies. The relevant analogy, of course, is photons in QED. But       photons are not fundamental to QED, they arise in its perturbation expansion --       i.e. in the weak-field limit. QED has no photon-photon vertex; we have never       tested it with strong fields, but if we did we might find that additional       vertices need to be added....              The analogy breaks down, of course, because we don't know of any plausible       scenarios with strong-field QED, but we do expect strong-field quantum gravity       near the classical singularities inside black holes (and elsewhere).              Tom Roberts              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca