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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Dark Matter - Is gravity really constant?
« on: 17/08/2009 05:11:14 »i'm just standing on the sidelines, but not with scorecards. i've already said i know nothing about this topic, i was just offering a reminder that there are many researchers working on physics. it is possible that they can't see the wood for the trees, but i find this unlikely considering there are physicists all over the world in every continent (and therefore one system of thinking is not influencing them all, besides, of course, the scientific method)
Glovesforfoxes:
Consider that if a certain patent examiner in Switzerland had assumed that physicists would figure everything out, our world would be a very different place.
Now, I freely admit that I'm no Einstein, but perhaps, if I can provoke just a little lateral thinking, it might help someone figure out one of the greatest mysteries in science. I may embarrass myself in the process, but nothing ventured...
BTW, the idea that gravity is "different" in our locality has been suggested by physicists to explain the "missing matter" in the past. However, this is not generally accepted (correctly, I think) because it would require that there is something "special" about our part of the universe. I am not suggesting there is. I am questioning whether the amount of matter in a volume of space can in some way alter the gravitational effect within that volume. This would require that space has some novel properties, but as there is little agreement regarding what space actually is, and as we know matter does interact with space, why would we assume the interaction does not expose novel properties?
Perhaps there are experiments that demonstrate my question has no merit. Fine with me. I'm just hoping someone can point them out.