On Jul 20, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Harry Veeder wrote:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17481
July eclipse is best chance to look for gravity anomaly
It would seem to me a great way to study this would be to look at
satellite gathered radar data for the ocean during and soon after the
eclipse. See:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716103849.htm
http://tinyurl.com/lhhf4v
Although gravitational screening has apparently been ruled out as the
source of the subject eclipse anomalies, the work on gravitational
screening by Quirino Majorana provides a number of lessons and I
think inspirations to a group of this nature.
"Quirino Majorana was so bold as to tackle difficult experiments,
which would today require teams of tens of experts, and he was
totally alone! And, moreover, without adequate financial support. He
heavily paid for his boldness. Nevertheless, he managed to tackle his
researches with unpretentiousness, integrity, bravery, with a
continuous zeal all his life. His figure is not as famous as it could
have been if his experiments had pointed out with certainty some
contradictions in the special theory of relativity and in the law of
gravitation: rather, the results he obtained concerning the second
postulate of the special relativity must be regarded as some of the
most perfect confirmations of it. Nevertheless, it seems logical to
say that Majorana and his opponents had very different ways of
looking at the problem: on the one hand the experimental data to be
accepted in any case, on the other the rejection of those data which
indicated the presence of a feeble effect, which was in disagreement
with the current theories."
http://sci-ed.org/Conference-2004/Proceedings/Dragoni.pdf
http://tinyurl.com/np7rcr
It certainly would seem that the gravitational screening (of the sun)
provided by the moon during an eclipse would be a small effect
compared to the daily screening of the night side of earth by earth
itself, though eclipse phenomena would be more readily observable or
discoverable due to their short duration. If the effects involved
are due to the gravimagnetic field of the moon, or earth-moon system,
then these should be observable with respect to moon rise, moon set,
and other daily or monthly positions of the moon-earth system. These
effects would certainly be observed as anomalies in satellite orbits,
and perhaps they have been. My take on some of this is well known
here. See:
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/FullGravimag.pdf
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/PioneerAnom.pdf
There is a possible exception to the ability to study this anomaly
without benefit of an eclipse. That exception has to do with
pressure exerted due to gravitons or graviphotons from the sun
traversing the moon, and which are changed in momentum by the
relative motion (rotation) of the moon. This might produce the type
of effect seen in Fig. 4, Page 3/12, of:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0408023v5
Of course there are many other possibilities, including no effect at
all, i.e. a lot of bad data historically. If there is an effect in
the data, maybe this time it won't be trumped by theory. Ha! Where
have I heard that before? 8^)
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
