On Friday, January 24, 2020 at 10:01:56 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 1/24/2020 7:51 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Friday, January 24, 2020 at 5:51:12 PM UTC-7, Bruce wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:48 AM Philip Thrift <cloud...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Friday, January 24, 2020 at 6:42:35 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Proto-bullshit is an intrinsic component of panpsychism. >>>> >>>> Brent >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> What about is there or is there not a particle associated with the >>> gravity field? >>> >> >> Photons (virtual) are associated with the E/M field. Gravitons (virtual) >> are associated with the quantized gravity field. >> > > Photons "virtual"? Am I seeing virtual photons impinging on my eyeballs? > > > No. The photons you see with are real photons. Virtual photons are > off-shell particles used in Feynman diagrams to expand the Green's > function. They allow for static EM fields; one's that don't propagate. > > As for gravitons, if we quantized gravity, they would the mediators of > force, hence real. AG > > > Except quantizing gravity seems to necessarily lead to un-renormalizable > infinities. Gravitons are just the weak field approximation. The basic > problem is that general relativity is non-linear...gravitons attract > gravitons. > > Brent >
If the gravity field is the one field of physics with no associated particle, then that one be an anomaly. @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/42826975-b3db-4512-b29e-e704016fa96d%40googlegroups.com.
