rainbow

Jeffrey Reid jgreid at u.washington.edu
Thu May 2 16:15:29 CDT 1996


On Thu, 2 May 1996, Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt wrote:
> Einstein's Relativity posits that light-'particles' have mass
>
I think you are confused.  In Einstein's relativity photons (light
particles) have no mass.  But they are effected by gravity due to it's
bending of spacetime.

> couldn't we imagine another 'true' "Gravity's Rainbow" in this sense?
>
Since gravity has it's own particles (gravitons) analagous to photons I
would imagine the 'true' Gravity's Rainbow as made up of these.

> Yet how does this all make gravity "messianic" and / or "extrasensory
> to Earth's mindbody"?
>
Since gravity is a universal force independent of the existance of humans
or the Earth, it isn't too difficult to see it a messianic...

Jeff

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Jeffrey G Reid       			jgreid at u.washington.edu
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"O holy mathematics, may I for the rest of my days be consoled
 by perpetual intercourse with you, consoled for the wickedness
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