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New Theories / Are gravitation and electromagnetism related?

« on: 14/11/2011 09:45:34 »

The statements formulated in the previous post are elaborated in the article "The Nature of the gravitational Field" (http://www.prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/viewFile/286/276) published in PRESPACETIME JOURNAL - Vol 2 - Issue 11 (http://www.prespacetime.com).

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New Theories / Are gravitation and electromagnetism related?

« on: 11/05/2011 18:21:02 »

The article "Physical Foundation of the Theory of Fields" (http://www.prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/viewFile/174/182), published in PSTJ - vol 2 - issue 4 (http://www.prespacetime.com) focuses on the backgrounds and the essential points of the theory of informatons.

The hypothesis that the substance of gravitational and electromagnetic fields is "information" carried by "informatons", leads to the following insights about the nature of those fields.

- in any inertial reference frame, gravitational and electromagnetic phenomena propagate with the speed of light
- gravitational and electromagnetic fields are continuously regenerating
- there is noise on the quantities Eg/E and Bg/B hat macroscopically characterize a field
- the field Eg/E created and maintained in a point P by a uniform moving mass/charge always points to the actual position of that mass/charge, and not to the position where it is "seen" from P
- the dynamics of the informatons translates in the laws of G.E.M./Maxwell
- there is a perfect isomorphism between G.E.M. and E.M.
- a photon/graviton is an informaton that transports a quantum of energy

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New Theories / Are gravitation and electromagnetism related?

« on: 12/01/2011 18:08:19 »

                                                "Ever seen GEM equations?"


Yes, see:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitomagnetism

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New Theories / Are gravitation and electromagnetism related?

« on: 27/12/2010 18:52:06 »

In the article "Theoretical Foundation of Electromagnetism" ( http://www.prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/viewFile/102/130 ) published in PRESPACETIME JOURNAL - vol 1- issue 10 - pp. 1455-1476, it is shown that "the theory of informatons" is able to explain the phenomena and the laws of electromagnetism in the same way as it explains gravito-electromagnetism.

This justifies the idea that gravitation and electromagnetism are related; and that an accelerated point mass emits a gravitational wave in the same way as an accelerated point charge emits an electromagnetic wave.  It follows that a gravitational wave should transport energy in the form of discrete packages that are the analogues of photons.  In the article, an energy package emitted by a point mass is called a "graviton": it is an informaton carrying a quantum of gravitational energy.

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New Theories / Are gravitation and electromagnetism related?

« on: 04/11/2010 18:42:41 »

About this topic, see also the article "Theoretical foundation of gravito-electromagnetism" ( http://www.prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/91/88 ) in PRESPACETIME JOURNAL - Vol 1 - Issue 7 - pp.1085-1104.

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New Theories / Are gravitation and electromagnetism related?

« on: 15/07/2010 15:16:47 »

The theory of gravito-electromagnetism (G.E.M.)assumes a perfect isomorphism between gravitation and electromagnetism.  Within the framework of general relativity is shown that the gravitational analogs to Maxwell's equations can be derived from the Einstein field equation.

In the paper "THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF GRAVITO-ELECTROMAGNETISM" (published on http://www.wbabin.net/weuro/acke5.pdf and on http://www.vixra.org/pdf/1006.0045v1.pdf ), we propose an alternative foundation of G.E.M.  We start from the idea that a material object manifests itself in space by emitting mass and energy less dot shaped entities that rush away with the speed of light, carrying information about the position and the velocity of the emitter.  These entities are called "informatons".

We show how informatons constitute the gravitational field of an object and mediate in the interactions between masses.  In §4 we derive the G.E.M. equations from the characteristics of the informatons.

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New Theories / Re: Are gravitation and electromagnetism related?

« on: 20/03/2010 11:12:36 »

In the paper, referred to in message #1, it is shown that it is possible to explain the gravitational and the electromagnetic interactions by introducing "information" as a new physical concept.  It is assumed that information about the position, the velocity and the electrical charge of an object is carried by mass-, energy- and dimensionless  entities that are emitted by that body and rush away with the speed of light.  Because they transport nothing else than information, these entities are called "informatons".  They are defined by their attributes.  The gravitational and the electromagnetic field of a body are identified with the macroscopic manifestation of the cloud of informatons emitted by that body.

In the mentioned paper, it is assumed that the speed of the objects is negligible compared to the speed of light.  In a complementary article (www.wbabin.net/astro/acke4.pdf), the theory is expanded to relativic situations.

All comments are welcome.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Rest mass and relativistic mass.

« on: 06/12/2009 19:11:45 »

In the "theory of informatons", the term information is introduced in physics by narrowing its every day meaning to a physical concept.  That term is given a specific sense by defining it mathematically.  This procedure to define a new term is a tradition in physics: think of "force", "work", "charge", "current", "field", ... .

In the cited papers and in the monograph of Antoine Acke "Gravitatie en elektromagnetisme - De informatonentheorie" (in dutch) on which they are based, it is shown that all the gravitational and the electromagnetic phenomena can be understood as macroscopic effects of the behavior of the carrier of information: the hypothetical(?) informaton.  Moreover, the laws governing that phenomena can perfectly be derived from a few obvious postulates.

Further, since the "theory of informatons" unifies the theories of gravitation and of electromagnetism, it can contribute to a better understanding of physics studied in text books for a calculus based course for science and engineering students.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Rest mass and relativistic mass.

« on: 06/12/2009 09:58:37 »

I believe that "the theory of informatons" can explain in a simple way a lot of phenomena concerning gravitation and electromagnetism. My question: what do others think?

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Rest mass and relativistic mass.

« on: 05/12/2009 15:02:03 »

The concept "mass" is the topic of the paper REST MASS AND RELATIVISTIC MASS, published on www.wbabin.net/astro/acke3.pdf as a comment upon the "theory of informatons".

In that paper is shown that:

1. The rate at which an object - that whether or not is at rest relative to an inertial reference frame O - is emitting informatons in the space linked to O is determined by its rest mass if time is measured by a standard clock in O.

2. That rate is determined by its relativistic mass if time is measured by a standard clock in the "eigen inertial frame" O' of the object.  O' is the inertial reference frame that, at the considered moment, moves relative to O at the same velocity as the object.

3. The linear momentum (vector p) of a point mass in an inertial reference frame is determined by its relativistic mass.

4. The amount of energy represented by a point mass in an inertial reference frame is the product of its relativistic mass and the square of the speed of light.

5. The law of conservation of information is also valid when the included masses (or charges) are moving (integral form of Maxwell's first law), or when the mass (or charge) density is time dependent (differential form of Maxwell's first law).


NOTES

  - The "theory of informatons" is presented on this forum under the topic "gravitation and electromagnetism".  An introduction is published on www.wbabin.net/astro/acke2.pdf .

  - More information can be found on: www.antoineacke.net .

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New Theories / Re: Are gravitation and electromagnetism related?

« on: 16/11/2009 19:15:06 »

Modifying the way we think about photons is just what I do:  I suppose that a photon is an energy package transported by a carrier (§VI,5).  I call that carrier an "informaton".

The rate at which an object emits informatons depends only on his rest mass and not on his state of motion or on his electrical charge, factors that are essential for the emission of energy packages.  A (whether or not charged) object at rest or describing a uniform motion doesn't emit energy packages at all.  That implies that, in the case of interactions between masses and between charges at rest or uniformly moving, there are no photons available.  So, we need something else, namely informatons, to explain the mutual forces (Newton, Coulomb, Ampere).

In § VI,4 and next, I study the electromagnetic energy radiated by an oscillating electrical point charge.  The attributes of the emitted informatons manifest themselves macroscopic as an E.M. wave.  Some of that informatons transport an energy-package and manifest themselves as photons.  The square of the r.m.s. value of the electric field in a point is a measure for the intensity of the effective flow of photons in the direct vicinity of that point.  We can interpret this by saying that light is a flow of descrete energy packages guided by an E.M. wave.

 

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New Theories / Re: Are gravitation and electromagnetism related?

« on: 16/11/2009 11:29:56 »

(First a question.  I mean that there can only be emission of photons by a body when it is electrically charged and accelerates. How is it possible to explain Newton's gravitation law with the intervention of photons?)

Maxwell's laws are the mathematical expression of experimentally observed electromagnetic phenomena: Coulomb, Ampere, Faraday, ... .  They define and describe the E.M. field perfectly, but - in my opinion - they don't explain it.

With the theory of informatons, I start from the idea that the E.M. and the gravitational field are constituted by a common constituent.  I define that constituent and deduce all the phenomena and laws from that definition.

The usefulness of this approach is in the first place pedagogically:  the quantities "field = information flow density" and "induction = information density" are defined without artificial considerations; and the phenomena and laws of gravity and electromagnetism are deduced in a similar manner.

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New Theories / Re: Are gravitation and electromagnetism related?

« on: 15/11/2009 18:50:57 »

I imagine an informaton as a point (a dimensionless dot) rushing through space, that is defined by  its attributes: velocity and spin (g-spin, β-spin, e-spin, b-spin).

Macroscopically, the informatons emitted by an object constitute its gravitational and (if it is electrically charged) its electromagnetic field.  The density of the flow of informatons in a point of a field manifests itself as the field strenght, and the density of the cloud of informatons as the induction.  Maxwell's laws, that hold as well for gravity as for electromagnetism, can mathematically be deduced from the behaviour of the informatons.

Informatons are mass- and energy less: they go through everything and they (their attributes) are invariably.  Masses (charges) respond on disturbances in the symmetry of the cloud of informatons which they are surrounded by accelerating, in order to become blind for the disturbances.  This idea allows to explain the gravitational and the electromagnetic interactions.

Informatons can carry (transport) energy packets.  Informatons with e-spin transporting an energy packet manifest themselves as photons.  When a photon crosses the path of an informaton with e-spin, it is possible that the energy packet make a transfer from the first to the second informaton:  the visible effect is a change of the direction in witch the photon moves. 

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New Theories / Re: Are gravitation and electromagnetism related?

« on: 15/11/2009 16:46:32 »

yell???

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New Theories / Re: Are gravitation and electromagnetism related?

« on: 15/11/2009 16:15:03 »

randomly???

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New Theories / Are gravitation and electromagnetism related?

« on: 15/11/2009 10:10:33 »

In the paper "GRAVITATION AND ELECTROMAGNETISM - Introduction to the THEORY OF INFORMATONS" ( published on www.wbabin.net/astro/acke2.pdf ) is exposed how the concept "information" can contribute to a better understanding of the physics of the macroscopic world: interactions between (whether or not charged) objects, electromagnetic radiation and waves, light.  This is the physics studied in textbooks for a calculus-based course for science and engineering students.

In the paper, the term INFORMATION is introduced in physics by narrowing its everyday meaning to a physical concept.  It is given a specific sense by defining it mathematically.

The "theory of informatons" starts from the idea that a physical object manifests itself in space by emitting INFORMATONS.  Informatons are dot-shaped mass- and energyless entities that rush away at the speed of light carrying information about the position, the velocity and the electrical charge of the emitter.  The rules for the emittion of informatons by a point mass at rest, and their attributes, are defined by the postulate of the emission of informatons.

The consequences of the postulate for het gravitational interaction are developed in paragraphs I to IV, and those for the electromagnetic interaction in paragraph V.  The physical entity FIELD and the physical quantities that characterise a field (FIELD STRENGHT, INDUCTION) acquier a new meaning.  The laws to which these quantities are subjected (MAXWELL'S LAWS) and the rules that manage the mutual forces (NEWTON, COULOMB, LORENTZ) are deduced.  One shows that there is a great analogy between a gravitational and an electromagnetic field, what implies that the gravitational field has a component that is analogous to the magnetic field.

In paragraph VI the "theory of informatons" is applied in the study of electromagnetic waves and radiation.  The idea is introduced that a PHOTON is an informaton transporting an energy package.   This leads to the view that the deflection of light passing through a narrow split can be understood as the visible effect of the transitions of energy packages between informatons that cross one anothers paths.  Finally the implications of the gravity-electromagnetism analogy are investigated for the existence of gravitational waves and gravitons.

The "theory of informatons" is - just like all other theories - a construct of the reason, a mathematically supported logical "language game" devised to understand in a simple and consistent manner the phenomena on which it focusses.