<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by kcody</i>
<br />My next thought is that it doesn't matter if it's the *same* CG's present from one point in time to the next, there are still always many present to participate in collisions.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">My point about time did not communicate well. From the perspective of an MI, close approaches and collisions by gravitons (CGs) are well spaced in time, similar to asteroid close approaches and collisions at our space and time scales. So at any given <i>instant</i> of time, probably no CG is nearby or colliding. Only when you take a finite time interval, say, a trillionth of a second, will you find lots of CGs passing through any given MI-sized volume of space or colliding with the MI.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">shouldn't there be secondary effects, such as creating heat from friction between MI's? Could this add up enough to explain Jupiter giving off more heat than it seems to receive? Could it serve as one possible trigger for a planetary explosion event. if the planet is almost ready to pop?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Yes to both questions. I discussed the heat flow produced by CGs in the <i>Pushing Gravity</i> book, and its implications for planetary explosions in a <i>Meta Research Bulletin</i> paper just released to our web site:
metaresearch.org/solar%20system/eph/PlanetExplosions.asp
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Don't suppose you teach somewhere?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Good teaching is a full time job. So is research. Everyone must choose, or risk not doing either well. I chose research. Sadly, many teachers are researchers forced into the classroom, who care little for the welfare of their students. The converse situation is also seen all too often: Good teachers are forced out by the "publish or perish" philosophy.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Also, that book you mentioned - "Pushing Gravity" - doesn't seem to be anywhere in the eastern Massachusetts inter-library system. Do you have an ISBN, so I'm sure I have the right book?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">ISBN 0-9683689-7-2. If you don't find it locally (the publisher is Apeiron Press in Montreal), it is available through our web site store. -|Tom|-
