At 2:32 PM 12/22/4, Keith Nagel wrote: >Hi Horace. > >Yes, this is heading in a direction I like... > >Let's go a little further. Considering a QM description >of gravito-kinetics, we can imagine gravitons being >emitted by precessing masses in a manner similar to >photon emission from precessing charged masses. What >we see from experiment is that there are well known >transitions for the photon emissions, but there are >other transitions said to be "forbidden". I assert that >these forbidden transitions are in fact transitions >which lead to graviton emissions. Due to a variety of >factors, these emissions are MUCH less likely and >are incorrectly described as being "forbidden". Experimental >apparatus which select for these transitions and prohibit the >photon emission paths are good candidates for GK radiators. > >K.
A *very* interesting thought. I have to ponder the small energetics embodied in gravity waves. Conservation of energy is a problem, or boon, depending on your perspective. The factor (q_e/m_e) = 1.7588x10^11 coul/kg is rather large. I suppose to conserve energy a transaction forbidden in EM could occur that involved the creation of large numbers of real gravitons. I also have to wonder if real gravitons and real photons can be created one without the other, and if so, can they be split after emission? Mass charge and electomagnetic charge coexist, embodied in the wave generating particle. I don't offhand see why one form of radiation could not occur without the other, but this is all new territory for me. Perhaps what we have here is just another set of orthogonal or conjugate quantum variables, the probabilities of (real) graviton vs photon emission upon acceleration. If so, when one is forbidden the other may not be, so its probabilty becomes 1. This use of EM forbidden zones, combined with energy conservation, is thus a powerful means to get the graviton energy flow up to collosal values, so adds credence to your approach in that an otherwise nominal gravipoynting vector becomes quite large. It is too bad the term graviton is already used up. Maybe I should be using the term "graviphoton" to refer to real gravitons, and just "graviton" to refer to the ordinary (virtual) messenger graviton. I should also note that any radiating apparatus generating EM radiation is likely generating graviphotons as well, unless it is somehow, say energetically, forbidden. However, the associated gravimagnetic momentum and energy flow should be very small. Regards, Horace Heffner
