On Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 6:18:56 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 7:06 AM Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > *> Getting to Planck energy is of course a practical issue. This is not >> necessarily an issue with fundamental physics. However, in the weak field >> limit we have gravitational memory that is an abelian symmetry identified >> with I^+, in addition to the Lorentz symmetry at i^+/. Then even in a weak >> field limit, say the detection of gravitational waves from colliding black >> holes, we have find a signature of this foaminess of spacetime at much >> higher energy. * >> > > > But doesn't Einstein's field equation predict the existence of > gravitational waves even if quantum mechanics and spacetime foam is > completely ignored? > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > Of course it does. but just as Planck showed there were some statistical rules with EM radiation and then Einstein showed the so-called Einstein coefficients with the statistics of photons, the same should hold for gravitational radiation. There should be some statistical properties underlying gravitational waves that betrays some quantum mechanical undercarriage to GR. LC -- 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/f24a8c1e-6686-4172-9596-e5d49a6b577fn%40googlegroups.com.
