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I was talking with my grandmother and we got to thinking about gravity shielding and how to use it to prove the Meta model. Here are a few thoughts, loosely inspired by this thread. Please tell me if I'm wrong.
Our 'push' model of gravity requires that a gravity particle collide with matter thus transferring its momentum as a force, like a billiard ball. Since matter is essentially mostly empty space from the perspective of our miniscule graviton, this happens rarely. One could increase the likelihood of collision by increasing mass density, but the practical limit of compression with presently controllable forces renders this option moot. Another strategy would be to increase the path length along which you are trying to intercept and reflect the graviton and fill that path with matter as completely as possible. My best approximation to this would be a highly ordered system configured to maximize occupance by atoms along a plane one atom thick. Since this is still mostly space to any traversing graviton, we would like to further improve our chances by aligning the nucleii along a single plane one nucleus thick, that is to say, hold them still, and further orient the (presumably assymetric) nucleii so that they all exhibit the same, maximal, apparent density along the plane. We could further multiply our chances by adding similar planes to our pile, hence constructing a sort of 'planar crystal' device.
So what?
Having accomplished this fantastic feat of engineering we would then have a situation in which gravitons traveling through our device parallel to the plane in any direction would have a chance of impacting a nucleii ranging from zero - in the voids between planes - to some maximum value within a zone of maximum mass alignment within each plane. If we are able to resolve pushing and pulling forces at this scale then we have accomplished a reduction in the overall size and mass of a device which may be useful in detecting gravitons.
Constructing a graviton detector out of such a planar 'crystalline' device is the tricky part. The device must be able to distinguish between a pulling force and a pushing one. Any configuration which relies on 'shielding' in one direction will therefore not work.
I propose a configuration which will identify whether gravity is acting as pulling force or a pushing force on a target.
Consider two objects composed of a planar 'crystalline' material such as that described above. Assume that we can exploit an imaginary property of this material which is that it emits radio waves in proportional response to forces that mechanically compress it along the planes of the material by way of a piezoelectric effect.
The first object is a small disk of some arbitrary thickness. The second object is a ring of the same thickness that is placed around the disk and which extends outward for some arbitrary radius concentric to the disk.
Assume the ring and disk can be aligned such that the planes of both are perfectly parallel to each other. Assume that the ring can be moved upward and downward so that the regions of higher and lower density with the planes are alternately aligned and then unaligned between the ring and the disk. Define the extreme states of alignment as 'wax' and 'wane', respectively.
Both the classical model of gravity and the Meta model predict a differential force to be exherted on the disk as the ring oscillates up and down. The classical model predicts a maximum circumferentially applied attractive force between the ring and disk when they are in 'wax' juxtaposition which would increase in magnitude indefinitely as an inverse square function of the radius of the ring. The Meta model predicts a minimum circumferentially applied compressive force on the disk when the ring and disk are in 'wax' juxtaposition. This compressive force would continue to decrease to zero as the ring radius increased to the finite size at which gravitational shielding was complete in the direction tangent to the circumference along the direction of the plane.
If the Meta model is correct then by measuring the amplitude of the radio waves emitted by the disk as a function of ring radius we should discover a point of complete gravitational shielding, the point at which radio wave amplitude ceased increasing. If classical gravity is true then the amplitude of the radio waves should increase forever as the radius of the ring increases.
The introduction, above, of 'planar crystallinity' actually obfuscates the theoretical design of the device somewhat. In principle any solid ring and disk would work given a sensitive enough detection system and a large enough ring. The configuration described above may serve to decrease the size of an actual device possibly rendering it practical but I doubt it. Sensitivity could be increased and mass decreased by increasing the 'height' of the system, or number and extremety of alternating zones of density within it. Perhaps someone smarter than I am could estimate the theoretical size of a device by making some simple assumptions about the densities and using some textbook force values for piezoelectric cells - or shoot down the whole premise.
Best Regards,
Don Holeman
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