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Wow, a new theory of gravitation?

Physical Review Letters, a journal of The American Physical Society.

http://prl.aps.org/

Chances are that if you don't know this, you are outside the mainstream of science.

Newton invented calculus and came up with the original law of gravitation which is still very accurate. Einstein wrote his laws of gravitation in a theory called Relativity. Einstein's theory

was so very precise that in order to prove it, the extremely slight bending of light as it went

past the sun (coming from a distant star toward Earth) had to be measured (during an eclipse)

...something which took many years before actually validating his work. However, his theory

also predicted the odd orbit of Mercury, ...something which Newton's theory did not.

My understanding is that currently String theory may be the best explanation of things. But

without a handle on advanced math this is beyond the critique of the average layman.

If you do have an alternative theory, it should include a means of verification. Your equations

should be specific and yield precise answers. Einstein knew he was right when his equations

precisely indicated the path of Mercury. A theory in science is not just an idea or concept or

a guess, but something which can be tested. Even after being found to be true it is often

still called a theory, perhaps because the original author called it that.

If you do not understand the math or the work of other scientists such as Einstein and Newton it would be hard to imagine that you would be able to correct their works. Einstein

placed us in a 4-dimensional space by including time a a dimension. You see, a foot is about

the same as a nano-second (one billionth of a second) and so instead of a point (measured

as length width and height or x,y,z, from some arbitrary starting point) being separated from

another point by distance, ...by adding time to this (using light as a measureing rod, ...which

in essence measures either a distance or a period of time by it's length) the old notion of a

place (three dimensions) was upgraded to an event (which is a place at a particular time) and

so now instead of a distance between places (points) we have events separated by intervals.

This four-dimensional framework is distorted by the presence of mater. The light going past

the sun from a distant star is not really bent (as I mentioned above) but is actually going in

a straight line (a beam of light pretty much defines what a straight line is in our real world)

and so it is the so-called distortion of space caused by the mass of the sun which causes the

perceived effect. This had to be measured very precisely (only possible during an eclipse) by

noting the relative positions of the stars (on film) and how their positions were changed from

what would be expected as they were nearly aligned with the sun. Sort of like how an object

would seem to move as glass of water was placed in the path from observer to object.

Well, good luck to you. I would suggest having a look at the Super String site:

http://www.superstringtheory.com/

to see what is currently being contemplated.

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