Gravity, light, no rainbow......part of the Unified Pynchon Theory

[Lawrence Bryan]

It's the mass that causes the distortion in space. The "sheet" in the  
picture was just to show an analog in three space of what happens in  
4 space. The sheet diagram always show the heavy ball distorting the  
sheet but it assumes there's something attracting the mass downward  
and distorting the two dimensional sheet into a three dimensional  
space. When a mass is moving through three space, which direction is  
the distortion? Makes my brain do funny things thinking about it.  
It's true that the surface of the sheet is still only two  
dimensional, but the picture implies a distortion into a dimension  
not on the plane of the sheet when it was flat. The implication of  
the picture is that a small ball close to the bowling ball will roll  
down the sheet towards the bowling ball, no doubt in a grove caused  
by its own mass (weight). Too late at night to think any more.

Lawrence

On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:16 PM, Cometman wrote:

Live and loin...

Here I thought that gravity was neither particle nor wave, but
a field - something that wouldn't have to propagate because it's
already there, hanging out.

In physics class we saw this movie with a picture of a bowling
ball on a rubber sheet (enuretic?) to illustrate gravitys' deformation
of local space - how could it do that if it had to propagate?

Anyway that sort of reminds me of that book "The Curve of Binding
Energy" by John MacPhee, which leads us, in a physics-for-poets
sort of way, by a commodious vicus of recirculation,
back to the Gravity's Rainbow concept...


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