On Nov 28, 2007, at 8:27 AM, Jones Beene wrote:
For some reason which I cannot quite verbalize yet, there is added
insight to be had by considering this paper in the context of
Horace Heffner's ideas of "virtual photons" (the messenger
graviton) being the mediator of gravity. More on that later.
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/FullGravimag.pdf
My idea there is that an isomorphism between mathematical models of
gravity and EM exists. The correspondence of elements of the models
includes the correspondence of virtual photons to gravitons, and
also graviphotons to photons, etc. This is not to say that gravitons
*are* virtual photons. Quite the contrary. These are physically
differing entities, having differing physical units. Gravitons can
even be thought of as existing in differing dimensions, because they
mediate a field having the imaginary number i = (-1)^(1/2) in its
units, in the above theory. In fact, such extra dimensions are
essential to developing quantum general relativity. Gravitons and
graviphotons exist in separate sets having operators and relations
that preserve a 1-1 correspondence under the isomorphism. In this
manner, every valid expression in one model has an equivalent in the
other. It is important to note that invalid or incomplete formulas,
like E = m c^2 for example, do not necessarily have valid
counterparts in the two models, or in a unified theory of everything.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
