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Author: Laurent
Date: Jan 22, 2008 09:50

If gravity is mediated by photons (gravitons) which travel at near the
speed of light and there is no action at a distance, as QED says,
would it then take the sun eight minutes to register any drastic
changes on the Earth's magnetic field... or, vice-versa? Suppose there
was a 90 degree shift on the Earth's axle of rotation, would it take
the Sun eight minutes to react? How many days would it take planet
Mars?

Teachers teach us that if you fill a glass of water with ice and you
allow the ice to melt the water level should stay the same, remember?
Then, how does polar cap melting creates a sea level rise?

--
Laurent
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Re: Questions for you physicists out there         


Author: luke.saul
Date: Jan 22, 2008 10:05

On Jan 22, 6:50 pm, Laurent gmail.com> wrote:
> If gravity is mediated by photons (gravitons) which travel at near the
> speed of light and there is no action at a distance, as QED says,
> would it then take the sun eight minutes to register any drastic
> changes on the Earth's magnetic field... or, vice-versa? Suppose there
> was a 90 degree shift on the Earth's axle of rotation, would it take
> the Sun eight minutes to react? How many days would it take planet
> Mars?
>
> Teachers teach us that if you fill a glass of water with ice and you
> allow the ice to melt the water level should stay the same, remember?
> Then, how does polar cap melting creates a sea level rise?
>
> --
> Laurent

You need to read the very interesting debate between Van Flandern and
Carlip.

Tom Van Flandern, Physics Letters A 250:1-11 (1998)
http://www.ldolphin.org/vanFlandern/gravityspeed.html
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Re: Questions for you physicists out there         


Author: Randy Poe
Date: Jan 22, 2008 10:10

On Jan 22, 12:50 pm, Laurent gmail.com> wrote:
> Teachers teach us that if you fill a glass of water with ice and you
> allow the ice to melt the water level should stay the same, remember?

Correct.
> Then, how does polar cap melting creates a sea level rise?

Because, as I have mentioned in another thread, Antarctic
ice is mostly sitting on land, not floating. Arctic ice is
floating and its melting will eliminate the habitat for polar
bears but will not affect sea levels.

- Randy
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Re: Questions for you physicists out there         


Author: Uncle Al
Date: Jan 22, 2008 11:12

Laurent wrote:
>
> If gravity is mediated by photons (gravitons) which travel at near the
> speed of light

IDIOT ALERT!!! IDIOT ALERT!!!
> and there is no action at a distance, as QED says,
> would it then take the sun eight minutes to register any drastic
> changes on the Earth's magnetic field... or, vice-versa? Suppose there
> was a 90 degree shift on the Earth's axle of rotation, would it take
> the Sun eight minutes to react? How many days would it take planet
> Mars?

Idiot.
> Teachers teach us that if you fill a glass of water with ice and you
> allow the ice to melt the water level should stay the same, remember?
> Then, how does polar cap melting creates a sea level rise?
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Author: Wordsmith
Date: Jan 22, 2008 11:16

On Jan 22, 12:12 pm, Uncle Al hate.spam.net> wrote:
> Laurent wrote:
>
>> If gravity is mediated by photons (gravitons) which travel at near the
>> speed of light
>
> IDIOT ALERT!!! IDIOT ALERT!!!
>
>> and there is no action at a distance, as QED says,
>> would it then take the sun eight minutes to register any drastic
>> changes on the Earth's magnetic field... or, vice-versa? Suppose there
>> was a 90 degree shift on the Earth's axle of rotation, would it take
>> the Sun eight minutes to react? How many days would it take planet
>> Mars?
>
> Idiot.
>
>> Teachers teach us that if you fill a glass of water with ice and you
>> allow the ice to melt the water level should stay the same, remember?
>> Then, how does polar cap melting creates a sea level rise? ...
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Re: Questions for you physicists out there         


Author: Laurent
Date: Jan 22, 2008 11:54

On Jan 22, 2:12 pm, Uncle Al hate.spam.net> wrote:
> Laurent wrote:
>
>> If gravity is mediated by photons (gravitons) which travel at near the
>> speed of light
>
> IDIOT ALERT!!! IDIOT ALERT!!!
>
>> and there is no action at a distance, as QED says,
>> would it then take the sun eight minutes to register any drastic
>> changes on the Earth's magnetic field... or, vice-versa? Suppose there
>> was a 90 degree shift on the Earth's axle of rotation, would it take
>> the Sun eight minutes to react? How many days would it take planet
>> Mars?
>
> Idiot.
>
>> Teachers teach us that if you fill a glass of water with ice and you
>> allow the ice to melt the water level should stay the same, remember?
>> Then, how does polar cap melting creates a sea level rise? ...
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Date: Jan 22, 2008 12:17

"Uncle Al" hate.spam.net> wrote in message
news:47964012.BF34B10E@hate.spam.net...
IDIOT ALERT!! IDIOT ALERT!!

Open sewer with Schwartztord floating (River of shit) snipped.

http://tinyurl.com/2g2ukd
20 Aug 2003, 21:16

| Hey stupid:

| 1) Newton summing velocities, [V1 + V2] = V1 + V2
| 2) Special Relativity summing velocities, [V1 + V2] = (V1 + V2)/[1
+(V1)(V2)/c^2]

| There's the math. Now you can piss and moan about an inertial observer.

| We'll proactively play it your way, asshole. -- Schwartzshit.

HEY FUCKHEAD!
We'll proactively play it your way, CUNT.
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Re: Questions for you physicists out there         


Author: Laurent
Date: Jan 22, 2008 12:21

On Jan 22, 1:05 pm, luke.s...@space.unibe.ch wrote:
> On Jan 22, 6:50 pm, Laurent gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If gravity is mediated by photons (gravitons) which travel at near the
>> speed of light and there is no action at a distance, as QED says,
>> would it then take the sun eight minutes to register any drastic
>> changes on the Earth's magnetic field... or, vice-versa? Suppose there
>> was a 90 degree shift on the Earth's axle of rotation, would it take
>> the Sun eight minutes to react? How many days would it take planet
>> Mars?
>
>> Teachers teach us that if you fill a glass of water with ice and you
>> allow the ice to melt the water level should stay the same, remember?
>> Then, how does polar cap melting creates a sea level rise?
>
>> --
>> Laurent
>
> You need to read the very interesting debate between Van Flandern and
> Carlip. ...
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Re: Questions for you physicists out there         


Author: Immortalist
Date: Jan 22, 2008 13:12

On Jan 22, 9:50 am, Laurent gmail.com> wrote:
> If gravity is mediated by photons (gravitons) which travel at near the
> speed of light and there is no action at a distance, as QED says,
> would it then take the sun eight minutes to register any drastic
> changes on the Earth's magnetic field... or, vice-versa? Suppose there
> was a 90 degree shift on the Earth's axle of rotation, would it take
> the Sun eight minutes to react? How many days would it take planet
> Mars?
>

Is a photon a graviton?

All force carrier particles are bosons, but is a graviton a boson or
is the graviton the particle that carries and propogate the
gravitational force? And what about Fermions?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermion
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Re: Questions for you physicists out there         


Author: dlzc
Date: Jan 22, 2008 13:50

Dear Laurent:

On Jan 22, 10:50 am, Laurent gmail.com> wrote:
> If gravity is mediated by photons (gravitons)

Gravitons are not photons. Gravitons are virtual exchange particles,
and travel all possible paths at all possible speeds.
> which travel at near the speed of light

... and more than the speed of light. QM is no respector of time or
space.
> and there is no action at a distance, as QED says,

... because there is no distance.
> would it then take the sun eight minutes to
> register any drastic changes on the Earth's magnetic
> field... or, vice-versa?

What does magnetism have to do with gravity? Because you can levitate
a toad with a superconductor under certain circumstances, does not
mean the floor under the superconductor does not support the toad too.
> Suppose there was a 90 degree shift on the Earth's
> axle of rotation, would it take the Sun eight
> minutes to react?
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