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<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>Thanks John,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>I'm more than ever convinced that
unless we can get a better grasp of what 'space-time' actually IS - which
fundamentally means a proper understanding of gravitation - then our species is
at very serious risk of imploding and taking much (most?) of life on this
planet with us. For the past century or more we've been looking inward
rather than outward; humankind is essentally an outward-looking race (the very
word 'race' implies that!), and without somewhere to look outward TO we tend to
flounder and bicker - just look around the planet today! The world is so
vastly overcrowded now, and set to be increasingly more so, with numerous
environmental issues to compound the problem. We need new horizons, new
frontiers, more than we ever did in the time of Vasco de Gama and
Columbus!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>[As an aside, I hope we'd also be
rather more considerate of any indigenous lifeforms that those who followed
Columbus!]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>That's a major reason why I've
offered my proposal on gravitation for consideration. If we don't crack
this one, VERY soon, we may run out of time, lebensraum AND the ability to deal
with the pressure-cooker environment we've created for ourselves. David
Attenborough is proposing that we seriously limit population growth; the Chinese
have tried that and it didn't work - and it never will; the 'prime directive'
built into our makeup by evolution is procreation. Our planet is like a
dandelion head full of seeds ready to fly - we've even been exploring the
heavens around us for places to fly TO! What we need now is the way to do
it; I earnestly believe that the way to do it is there in a greater
understanding of matter, space-time and gravitation - but not as long as the
established scientific community insists on hanging on to outdated paradigms and
doggedly refuses to even look at things from a new perspective.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>Ok, off my soap-box now. But I
do really hope that a few of you out there will take a look at my paper posted
with my last email; if there's something clearly wrong with it, please tell me -
if not, please tell others! Thanks.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>Grahame</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=johnduffield@btconnect.com
href="mailto:johnduffield@btconnect.com">John Duffield</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org
href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org">'Nature of Light and
Particles - General Discussion'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 20, 2016 6:04
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [General] Gravity and
ultraweak-photonemission</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US">Grahame:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US">I
share your general sentiment. I’ll read through your paper and get back to
you. Meanwhile I rather think the “shake the rug” waves are light waves. A
gravitational field is a place where space is inhomogeneous, not curved. See
what Percy Hammond says</SPAN><SPAN class=comment-copy><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia',serif; COLOR: #242729; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A
href="http://www.compumag.org/jsite/images/stories/newsletter/ICS-99-06-2-Hammond.pdf">here</A>:
<I>"We conclude that the field describes the curvature that characterizes the
electromagnetic interaction"</I>. </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US">Regards<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US">John
D<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext"
lang=EN-US>From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US> General
[mailto:general-bounces+johnduffield=btconnect.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org]
<B>On Behalf Of </B>Dr Grahame Blackwell<BR><B>Sent:</B> 20 August 2016
16:37<BR><B>To:</B> Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion
<general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org><BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[General] Gravity and
ultraweak-photonemission<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial',sans-serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Hi
Wolfgang, John M, John D, Hubert, Vladimir, Beverly et al.,</SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial',sans-serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">There
appear to be very strong reasons to believe that gravitation is in fact an EM
effect. If one starts from the premise that elementary particles are
themselves electromagnetic constructs then it's almost a foregone
conclusion. That premise was strongly evidenced by Landau & Lifshits
in Sov. Phys., 1934, reinforced by Breit & Wheeler later that same year
and proved beyond all reasonable doubt at SLAC in 1997 by Burke et al. (Phys
Rev Lett 79, pp1626-9).</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial',sans-serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">It's at
times somewhat paradoxical to me that physicists (present company
excepted!) all too often go looking for complicated explanations when
there's a simple one staring them in the face. If one simply sees the
force of attraction between unlike unit charges as being minutely greater than
the force of repulsion between like charges - and there's no known reason
why they should be identical (in fact it's likely that they won't) - then
gravitation drops out totally naturally as the difference between those two
effects. This would seem to sit well with Occam's razor since it
eliminates the need for one otherwise totally unexplained cosmic force at a
stroke. We know that every nucleon is made up of a mix of particles
of opposing charge (quarks) to give an overall charge; it seems eminently
likely that even those quarks are formed from energies that, taken separately,
would give rise to either positive or negative charge elements to
give the overall charge for a quark - this links the gravitational effect of a
particle directly to its total energy content and so to its total
mass.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial',sans-serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I've
attached a copy of my paper, published in 'Kybernetes' five years ago, that
details this proposal for gravitation. You'll see that it posits the
notion that space(-time) has a 'texture' (also explaining its 'stiffness' and
the 'curvature of spacetime') given by the summation of all time-varying EM
field effects emanating from all of the material particles in the universe -
this of course draws on the fact that electromagnetic fields are unlimited in
their reach (and electromagnetic potential is unblockable - Aharonov-Bohm
Effect), i.e. that what we experience as a localised particle is just the
'core', so to speak, of an electromagnetic field effect unlimited in its
extent. The (-time) in brackets above reflects the fact that this
'texture' of this 'neo-aether' is continually varying as celestial bodies (and
groups of celestial bodies) are themselves in continuous motion, so also
is their contribution to this 'textured'
continuum.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial',sans-serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I'd be
most interested in any feedback on this proposal, including of course any
clear reasons (if any such exist) why it may not be a feasible
proposition. You'll note that this concept includes a pretty thorough
explanation for every aspect of the Equivalence Principle as included in
GR. There's also the strong implication that the gravity waves recently
detected are themselves electromagnetic constructs (since the fabric of
spacetime is itself EM in nature, and so susceptible to being 'shaken like a
rug' by such waves); this may have something to say to Beverly's field of
interest, since tidal forces are themselves in a sense a pale shadow of
gravity waves.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial',sans-serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Thanks
all,</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial',sans-serif; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Grahame</SPAN></P>
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