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 <[email protected]> >> 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/42826975-b3db-4512-b29e-e704016fa96d%40googlegroups.com.
